There’s a lot of us that feel exactly the same way. Hopefully the tide will turn and we can mobilize our collective acceptance of the reality and a commitment to making hard changes and regulations to save our planet. I was very sad to see this weekend the news that the EPA under Trump has removed restrictions on moving forward with the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay. If we have a continually compromised EPA, it’s just going backwards at the worst possible time. I previously worked for the Department of the Interior and it is very depressing that a National Park Service scientist was silenced from publishing impacts of climate change and eventually pushed out. The American public needs to support our own government, it’s a shame that so many people have been brainwashed to think the government is the bad guy. If we remove government regulations because the government has been branded the enemy, then all we have left is private for-profit corporations. Not even real people at the helm, just quarterly profits driving everything. No regard for sustainability, only short term profits.

I hope people can triumph over what feels like a internal spiritual war that we’re all battling, and find their strength, and fight for their planet and their life. It’s possible, no one knows what the future holds.

Personally I’ve been fighting this war internally and making a lot of progress and finally feeling like I can get back out there and fight in an external way. Others may also be working their way through this internally as well and starting to feel that they can triumph personally to be able to stand up and fight. That has to happen first to be able to fight collectively for change but we may be getting there soon. It’s possible, there’s hope.