No Channel Channel.

Feeling heartbroken looking at the pictures and videos of the hurricane aftermath coming out of Asheville and greater WNC

The media isn’t covering the damage there because there’s no way to get in or out, nor any cell reception right now

I’m not sure how to help from afar but if I figure out how, I’ll let y’all know

I was devastated by the WNC floods last year. Seeing the LA fires, I intellectually feel a similar sadness. But emotionally, I feel more detached since I’m less connected with the land

Perhaps we must viscerally feel the anguish of climate volatility before we can solve it. Ie. it may be a crisis of the heart, not the mind

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Yeah I feel that tension too

I worry that if we're too tactical, it will be kicking the can down the road

But at the same time, how do you mass uproot people from urban areas like LA? You can't -- but these time horizons need to be blended

Sadly, we're missing both sides of the barbell right now...

climate volatility is a long-term problem that will take years, if ever, to reverse completely; we must focus on practical, tactical solutions to allow humans to better endure and survive this volatility. unfortunately, the environmentalists and the tactical problem solvers have long been at odds in LA.

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I always thought it would be aliens that would unite us

Jokes aside, I wonder if a "wartime" mentality will only make things worse. We might need to disconnect concerted effort from defeating something. I don't think we can "defeat" the planet

The physical and economic damage is relatively quantifiable. The cost of the mental anguish is not.
It may be the something that weakens it... but it might also be what wakes us from our slumber and creates a more cohesive 'wartime' culture.

In September 2020 my kid was three months old and the air in Portland decided to turn poison (AQI>500) for a week. We couldn't drive anywhere because there was no reasonable way to filter the air in the car, and it was smokey in all directions for 100 or so miles. More and more people are going to be having these experiences.

I remember the 2020 wildfires and the “orange day” in San Francisco 

That experience of not breathing well for a week was tough, especially layered on top of Covid

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Well said. The collective body needs to *feel*

100% agree with that last part. Empathy (as a population, not individually) is a lie, people need to experience things in order to care.

Sorry to hear that man. It's not easy to lose your home and all the memories associated with it. Hope she is doing well now

Incredibly sad, billions of dollars in damages so many people just lost everything they own. Their entire lives are turned upside down. My mother's house burned down a few years ago it's devastating

I've felt very similar about this event compared to Helene. It is heartbreaking to look at before and after photos of specific places

I’m nervous about mudslides that frequently follow these fires.  Once we get rain there’s no vegetation left to hold the dirt down.

Climate change is a deeply personal issue that requires empathy and connection to the land for real change

human nature to not feel something as viscerally until it directly impacts you. if more people understood this, the world would look very differnt

really powerful thought, connecting emotionally might be just as important as understanding intellectually.