Slowing down to catch up

There’s an inherent unavoidable connection between mental health and environ-mental health.

Our cannibalisation of ourselves and our minds in the name of productivity is reflected in our cannibalistic consumption of the earth’s resources that sustain us. We are ravaging our internal resources which only forces us to consume more to satisfy our expanding emptiness.

The earth is burning up — it is so obvious that we need to slow down. Slow down enough to cool off our rate of consumption, and our rate of production, which means — our rate of overloading our own minds and bodies.

Humans are currently consuming like teenagers who got a hold of dad’s credit card. Someone has to pay the bill — sadly, it won’t be dad, it will be our own children. They will inherit a ravaged earth with bleak futures, how can that possibly improve rates of depression and anxiety?

We have to address our own mental health, and our culture and social norms and values around life and sustainability in order to make the necessary changes to our planetary crisis.

Continued below, but first, take a moment to fall into the grass…