Your Family Got Climate?
#ClimateChange; you know what that is, but if you are not actively informing yourself, you may not realize how serious, how threatening, and how immediate it is.
Response; a reaction to something, in this case, hopefully, a thoughtful and effective reaction that can include coming together in groups and ultimately in extremely large numbers to reverse #ClimateChange.
Families; groups of people, directly related or not.
#ClimateChange is growing like a cancer. We either acknowledge the severity and proximity of this threat, acknowledge its causes, and come together, unified, in huge numbers, or this process will make our #biosphere uninhabitable for the children of the world.
Where to start? How 'bout we come together as families to discuss the situation that we are all in, and at the very least, discuss the fate of our children, and all children.
My immediate family and I are doing just that! We met first on February 17, 2018, and then today, on October 6, 2018!
Kristofer Young
Joanne Young
Jovi Geraci
Robert Geraci
Ken Young
Jenny Young
Acknowledgement: we, as individuals, are not on the exact same page regarding all aspects of #ClimateChange. None of us are deniers, which certainly makes our job easier.
My growing concern about what #ClimateChange means for the safety and survival of humanity, moved me in December of 2017, to imagine what I have called Climate Change Response Families (CCRF). CCRF is a model, and a call to families to come together with their members to discuss and respond to climate change.
Most of us are not talking about and are not responding to climate change. Yet, most of us are not climate change deniers; we are actually afraid, confused, and/or unsure about what to do.
Alone, we tend toward fear, confusion and inaction. Together we are emboldened, we collaboratively find answers, and we act!
My current, early iteration of the start of a CCRF calls for family members to meet either face to face, through video conference, or through phone conference, and do 3 things:
• each member shares briefly their views and feelings about climate change,
• members discuss possible consensus for the group to be public about being a CCRF,
• agree on one action that all members will do to respond to climate change.
CCRF encourages care and respect for the views and choices of each family member. Given the emotionally-charged nature of the issue of climate change, I generally recommend that families consider carefully their ground-rules for these conversations, and I specifically recommend Nonviolent Communication (http://cnvc.org) as a model for successful communication.
So, before publicly launching the CCRF idea, I knew that I had to try it out with my own family first. Took almost 2 months to get us together! We used Skype. Our group first met, as stated above, on February 17, 2018 and consisted of my daughter, Jovi, son-in-law, Robert, son, Ken, daughter-in-law, Jenny, wife, Jo, and me.
I wish now that I had kept notes of our first meeting. We all acknowledge the reality of climate change and are concerned. It’s the uniqueness of our comments and views that I wish I had documented. One of us expressed being “terrified” of climate change.
We quickly and easily established consensus that we were all comfortable letting others know that we have formed a CCRF.
Our climate response action was for each of us to join http://350.org online.
We came together again today, through video conference, for our 2nd Climate Change Response Families meeting! We reviewed our first conference, shared individual updates on our sense of #ClimateChange, discussed our individual views on whether our children/grandchildren are safe, and committed to a shared blog on our CCRF with each member posting once every 6 months.
Does your family talk #climatechange?
Will you help us bring humanity together for the sake of the children?
Kristofer Young
My current, early iteration of the start of a CCRF calls for family members to meet either face to face, through video conference, or through phone conference, and do 3 things:
• each member shares briefly their views and feelings about climate change,
• members discuss possible consensus for the group to be public about being a CCRF,
• agree on one action that all members will do to respond to climate change.
CCRF encourages care and respect for the views and choices of each family member. Given the emotionally-charged nature of the issue of climate change, I generally recommend that families consider carefully their ground-rules for these conversations, and I specifically recommend Nonviolent Communication (http://cnvc.org) as a model for successful communication.
So, before publicly launching the CCRF idea, I knew that I had to try it out with my own family first. Took almost 2 months to get us together! We used Skype. Our group first met, as stated above, on February 17, 2018 and consisted of my daughter, Jovi, son-in-law, Robert, son, Ken, daughter-in-law, Jenny, wife, Jo, and me.
I wish now that I had kept notes of our first meeting. We all acknowledge the reality of climate change and are concerned. It’s the uniqueness of our comments and views that I wish I had documented. One of us expressed being “terrified” of climate change.
We quickly and easily established consensus that we were all comfortable letting others know that we have formed a CCRF.
Our climate response action was for each of us to join http://350.org online.
We came together again today, through video conference, for our 2nd Climate Change Response Families meeting! We reviewed our first conference, shared individual updates on our sense of #ClimateChange, discussed our individual views on whether our children/grandchildren are safe, and committed to a shared blog on our CCRF with each member posting once every 6 months.
Does your family talk #climatechange?
Will you help us bring humanity together for the sake of the children?
Kristofer Young
Clear, concise and gentle. Thank you for bring us together on this important issue. My compliments!
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