Amazon Rainforest Fires - Avoid This Trap
Channel: Charles Eisenstein
Date: 23/08/2019

The Amazon rainforest is on fire, but there is a psychological trap to be cautious of.

Like a lot of people I've been really deeply affected by what's happening in the Amazon rainforest here in August 2019, as the red line of logging and fires, many of them set deliberately to clear land for soybean plantations and cattle plantations and sugar cane.

That red line encroaches deeper and deeper into what should be the heart of the Amazon rainforest. As indigenous people are getting suppressed, and protected lands are getting logged and destroyed, I feel these waves of helplessness. The grief is so strong. What do I do with that energy?

I've noticed kind of a trap, a diversion, that says "take that energy and hate somebody with it. Blame somebody with it."