Thanks for this reminder that it's impossible to be perfect, and that we need to design systems without the double bind (living at an ecovillage was a foray into one such system where it was a lot easier to be sustainable). I think perfectionism is what makes me feel guilty about the double bind. Instead of realizing that I'm in a double bind I turn the dagger on myself. A poem I wrote about eco-perfectionism, which echoes what you've written about here:https://open.substack.com/pub/environmentalhealth/p/the-diaper-at-vernooy-kill?r=1yt4v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web . Thanks for writing this! It's nice to know I'm not alone in these struggles. Also, there is the book "no impact man" which for me showed how hard it was to have no impact in the current mainstream extractive civilization
Yes yes yes! Love your poem! Will deffo give that book a read, I was thinking recently about all my impacts on the earth and it's so hard to wrap my head around it.
Thanks for this reminder that it's impossible to be perfect, and that we need to design systems without the double bind (living at an ecovillage was a foray into one such system where it was a lot easier to be sustainable). I think perfectionism is what makes me feel guilty about the double bind. Instead of realizing that I'm in a double bind I turn the dagger on myself. A poem I wrote about eco-perfectionism, which echoes what you've written about here:https://open.substack.com/pub/environmentalhealth/p/the-diaper-at-vernooy-kill?r=1yt4v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web . Thanks for writing this! It's nice to know I'm not alone in these struggles. Also, there is the book "no impact man" which for me showed how hard it was to have no impact in the current mainstream extractive civilization
Yes yes yes! Love your poem! Will deffo give that book a read, I was thinking recently about all my impacts on the earth and it's so hard to wrap my head around it.
Brilliant!
Thanks Adam. :)