To Change
Habits of Mind
can move mountains
and up-ends our existence
If this is possible for Corona virus
an invisible, intangible infectious invader
working in networked ways silently from within
which demands recognizing our global connectedness
then it can be equally possible for its temporal equivalent
For climate change the requirement is not just global – all of space
but for all life for many thousands of years – all time, space and matter
Covid-19 demonstrates that it is possible to achieve the seemingly impossible
that time-space-matter responses to climate change are indeed possible & doable
In situations of social rupture we begin to become aware of all we take for granted
Things and processes that seemed set in stone, thus considered to be immovable
are recognized as just habits & conventions, thus open to social transformation
Will and intent are not enough as long as habits of mind dictate daily actions
invisibly from within, unseen and unnoticed, forming our common sense
The invisible needs to be rendered visible and the im/material tangible
for experiences to translate into realisations and the will to change
Nothing is impossible just more difficult for very long-term action
where interrelations & interdependencies are not immediate
or at least in the nearer future, affecting those dear to us
Even global strangers in the present feel so much closer
than strangers & other life forms in distant futures
But shifting from space to time-space-matter
becomes possible after having altered
our habits of mind for Covid-19
stopped flying and whizzing
here & everywhere for
the collective good
proving that impossible change
is eminently possible and doable
and even improves our wellbeing
© Barbara Adam
21 March 2020