Who are we and What is our Agency?

This is something we are trying to address in our action group project but I don’t want to get into what we are doing because the project is underway and we don’t have our end product ready yet.  However, I really am enjoying talking about change in several of my classes, this one included. And it’s interesting to me because there are so many things happening constantly around the world, it’s impossible for anyone to know everything. I’m referencing here the content flood that you experience if you ever try to read the news online or see nothing but articles and stories about the world on your social media, this constant influx of info and never any out flux is what befuddles us all.

So when I think about that and the fact that so often I feel young and naïve in my own knowledge of things, it makes me feel disempowered.  I have found that this feeling of disempowerment in people of college age leads us to feelings like “why bother”, “well forget trying to change – no one else is so what’s the difference”.

So as an environmental studies student, who spends most of her time in classes where we talk about issues and current events and the problems that this planet is going to undergo in the next 100-10,000 years, you start to wonder why aren’t we doing anything? That is if you haven’t let those feelings above really get to you.

And I feel this brings us to the physiological resilience topic we have been speaking about in the class. Because it is at the forefront of what it means to become a strong individual who fights for what is right in the Anthropocene.  But even now as I try to bring myself into a stronger mindset of, “I can make a difference, I just have to shut out my negativity”, I still feel like my pessimism is going to surpass my ability to believe in the positive outlook on the world.

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