People Can Now Sense Global Heating

Believing our senses is worth more than we realize.

Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Greener Together
Published in
2 min readJul 15, 2022

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Photo by Intricate Explorer on Unsplash

People enduring the heat are beginning to believe

The climate crisis has been real, and killing people, for quite some time.

However, until we smell the smoke, feel the burn, miss the food, or watch the rising waters, it is difficult to wrap one’s head around.

Our human default is deny and persist. We keep on keeping on. Many of us are so busy with the very factors that created this mess, that we feel helpless or hopeless, and just keep working and consuming.

This summer is another record-breaking scorcher.

This year, we are fighting not only heat, but the growing clamor of would-be tyrants to take control of nations and nature. It’s happening in Europe. In Sri Lanka, the revolt is taking over. In the U.K. Boris Johnson is done.

This week alone, we heard more details about the January 6th capital attack i the good ole’ USA.

Feel the heat

The fires and droughts are a hard reality for many. Is there any hope at all for any of us in fifty years?

It is useful, in psychology and sociology, when people face truth. Our addiction to oil is like any drug addiction, first, one must snap out of denial.

Truth that is hard to face is indeed painful. But it is also the most effective truth when it comes to learning lessons.

Some lessons from history we continue to learn

We learned from religious wars in Europe over the last centuries that bloodshed and intolerance is not confined to borders, nor to any one creed, or color, of humanity.

We learned that burning heretics and witches is insane and teaches us that group think and mob rule are horrendously cruel.

We learned that a great civil war in America kills Americans and barely begins to solve white supremacy.

We learned the world doesn’t collapse when women have some say — a vote, a choice — in their own lives.

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Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Greener Together

Ecopsychologist, Writer, Farmer, Defender of reality, and Cat Castle Custodian.