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Racheal Rauch's avatar

First off - good luck with the apartment, what a pickle! I cringed reading this as I have been in similar situations myself.

What a shock / honour to be quoted in your newsletter! I'm very much looking forward to reading other people's thoughts on this. I watched the whole series of Extrapolations and was thoroughly broken-hearted by the end because (SPOILER ALERT) they show a world where the corporations / one-percenters continue to reign supreme and our beautiful planet is thoroughly destroyed and although a few people still try to turn things around, most don't and so it's too late. The thought of this actually being the future of humanity and our beautiful planet terrifies me.

This ties into my dismay just this week after listening to a 7am podcast about how crap Labor is being on climate action: they are still approving new fossil fuel projects here there and everywhere, their Safeguard Mechanism is a paltry start and we're not likely to get anything else out of them this term of government. This last Federal election was supposed to be the climate election because we must make bold climate action this decade. Yet we are already in 2023 and our government is doing the bare minimum. I write letters to MP's. I sign petitions. I post on socials to share info. Things are not changing fast enough and I am losing hope that we aren't going to be in the situation Extrapolations paints for the future.

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I've been thinking lately about trauma. Not so much the big T trauma but the more invisible or discounted trauma. I've been listening to/reading Gabor Maté (a Canadian physician who has specialized in his retirement in addiction and trauma--- he would be an amazing person for you to interview, Sarah!!). He was given away to a stranger as an infant during WWII by his mother to save him from starvation in the ghetto. He was returned to his mother 6 weeks later but that sense of abandonment lived in his cells throughout his life. Trauma that happens before conscious memory seems to be the most insidious because it makes you feel crazy (I have first hand experience with this) Luckily for me, my mom talked freely about the birth trauma I experienced so I was able to connect the dots. I wonder about all the traumatized people in the world already and how we can help them heal and how there are going to be many more traumas due to climate change. Because hurt people are doing more damage everyday.

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