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Paradigms Bend is a blog I wrote and published on Blogger between Nov 2010 and Dec 2012. Because of Blogger making it difficult to comply with the EU's GDPR regulations, I have migrated the blog from Blogger to my website authoreacarter.net
There are a number of links in the posts which cannot be replicated within Wattpad, however if you wish to fully read the posts, each post is linked via the External Link (accessed via Wattpad's desktop platform). The posts run in reverse order from 2012 to 2010. One might be tempted to think the subjects are out-of-date, sadly, they are more relevant than ever. But I will leave it to you to decide...
In 2010, Paradigms Bend started out as a blog intended to be a personal investigation into climate change outside of media bias. The investigation soon became very disturbing, and as the blog matured, it grew into posts about raising awareness in an honest, relevant and engaging manner. This blog was one of the very first blogs to curate a Mass Animal Deaths list. The work was time-consuming, depressing, and exhausting, and after two years, despite its popularity I had to stop, the truth is I just couldn't take it anymore. It was just too awful, too constant - and most of it caused by humans, via the effects of a warming climate. Since then, other sites and blogs have continued to curate these lists. I tip my hat to them, they have more courage than I.
Along with the animal deaths, I also curated a Climate Events list for two years. Also depressing, also terrifying, and over time, occurring with greater frequency and intensity. Again, I had to stop. I had to live despite knowing we are living on a sinking ship. The blog matured once more, and the posts changed its focus - seeking solutions instead of focussing on destruction. Questions about our thinking, our values, our addiction to consuming and more have been addressed in the final, thought-provoking posts.
I get it. Climate change is not sexy. Unless of course is Mads Mikkelsen talking about it.
We need to grow up and face our future, and take responsibility for the legacy we are leaving our children. We are in big trouble, all of us, our children especially. Since this blog was begun, the changes I have noted have been enormous, the climate is changing far faster than the worst case scenario predictions made by IPCC and similar.
Get informed. Accept the science. Don't vote for deniers. Don't support corporations that destroy the environment. And appreciate each day you have, because the hard truth is very soon we are going to be looking back to these days as the days when we still had a chance to make a change - and didn't.
