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   Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:24:24 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

   That idea didn't land well. (Understatement alert!) This is an example of a place (there are many others) where I feel constantly trapped between saying what I'm really thinking and planning and saying what feels fundable.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:25:56 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     When you design tools that you think have the best chance of helping people who are more in more in crisis, in confusion, who you can't fly to or who don't have much money or time, or who have to start and stop their work, your tools look less shiny and more simple.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:25:57 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     When you instead put your energy into infrastructure you think could be sustained through destabilization - newsletters, pdfs that could be used even w/o power very simple tools, an actual three dimensional artifact, a book of al things - some opportunities close down.

     pettter repeated this.
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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:25:58 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     When you stop doing that which everyone (mostly) is doing but which you think can't continue under the coming destabilization you step out of a lot of opportunities

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:25:59 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     I can tell you that trying to do so, to figure out what "climate proofed climate work" is makes you look odd. Downright weird. And it seems to makes the fundraising part exponentially harder.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:26:00 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     It so clear now: our interventions need to be climate proofed if we are to be useful. Our work needs to be designed for the very destabilization it is trying to prevent the worsening off. And taking care of the world has to mean taking care of each other too.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:26:01 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     We climate workers are people too. Soft and vulnerable as anyone else. Hearts breaking. Filled with worry. Or putting down our laptops to deliver supplies or shelter others.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:26:02 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     Kids home from school. Relatives staying over. Worry for the future. Loss.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:26:03 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     Anyway today I'm the only one on our a team having a "normal" day. My colleagues, spread across the southeastern US are dealing with power outages, internet outages, debris, a chemical fire, flooding impacting them, loved ones, and their communities.

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     Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨ (bethsawin@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:26:05 JST Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨

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     Funders seem (mostly, there are always exceptions & these folks are dear to me & in service of an emerging better world) to want to fund "winners," invincible heroes ushering in a shiny new world in an exhausting but somehow upbeat rush.