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Peter Kalmus

What Peter Kalmus thinks about Trauma

@peter-kalmus · 14 positions

Climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2012 to 2026 and climate activist; author of Being the Change (2017). Writes the Climate Human newsletter on the climate emergency, protest and politics.

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  1. Our readingClimate breakdown is a planetary-scale symptom of underlying collective trauma from five hundred years of extractive colonial capitalism.

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    Their wordsAs I've said many times, climate breakdown is nothing more (or less) than the most planetary-scale symptom of the underlying collective trauma from five hundred unhealed, accumulated years of extractive colonial capitalism.

    ↗Climate Humanclimatehuman.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingPlanetary breakdown cannot be stopped without also addressing collective trauma.

    Their wordsWe can't stop planetary breakdown without also addressing this collective trauma, and we can't address this collective trauma without also working on our own healing.

    ↗Climate Humanclimatehuman.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece