To focus on the things that really matters - in the time of dying

 Michael Shawe, an Australian producer and director has made a film called "Living in the time of dying".

It is really powerful for the ones that really care for the future, who has time and energy enough to care.

He interviews people who is caring but also sees the threat of a global tragedy that has already started. 

So Shawe seems to come to the conclusion that what is best now is to do the things that really matters. 

I guess that is, to be present, to listen and to care for the ones  that are near us, even animal and plants. 

I'm not without hope that the situation can change and no one is knowing exactly what the future looks like. 

Anyway here is the film:  

So what can we do with the voices we have listened to in this film?

Turn away? Stop to listen because its to scary?

Or maybe just listen and not think much of it for some weeks. 

Robert Macfarlane writes in his quite new book "Underland":

We are presently living through the Anthropocene, an epoch of immense and often frightening change at a planetary scale, in which ‘crisis’ exists not as an ever-deferred future apocalypse but rather as an ongoing occurrence experienced most severely by the most vulnerable. 

That opinion is quite common; something has already started and its an accelerating process. 

But there is still hope, we can slow down the process and finally maybe stop it. 

But that means that we really has to listen, for instance to people like in the film...

And if we think it's too late...?

Well, we can never be sure of that.

For me, the things that still really matters is to not consume too much, not drive too much in cars and buy second hand if it's possible. 

So to say, be open for every possible outcome. 

We can see many perspectives of our global situation, bet let's be humble, there are many more that we cannot se...