how to keep house while drowning

[boxofdelights]

"Climate change is real. Environmentalism is important. But we are not going to fix the earth by shaming people with mental health and neurodiverse needs out of adaptive routines they need to function. Take that energy to Congress." --K.C. Davis, How To Keep House While Drowning

Shaming someone for using a plastic straw isn't going to save even one turtle. But the person who struggles to drink without a straw sure does make an easier target than the oil and gas industry.

Comments

[bibliofile]

I haven't read that book yet, because it's taking a bit of time to cycle through all the holds ahead of me at the library. It's as if the people who read it really need to read it, for as long as possible. I'm taking that as a good sign about the book, though not such a good sign that it's needed by so many people.

[boxofdelights]

It is a little book, but I found reading it to be a great comfort.

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[lunabee34]

*nods nods*

[silveradept]

The corporations and the politicians are very focused on making sure that we all think individually and not collectively about anything, and that's before they can conveniently get us to be unhappy with people who are already marginalized.

[lilysea]

*see icon*

*Thank you* for the straw thing.

I need straws

I've had to switch to nonbendable/nonpositionable paper straws since plastic straws were banned in my state, which has resulted in more "liquid trying to get into my lungs" incidents

and the smug self righteousness of the antistraw people is ...!

I actually wrote to the Premier saying "if you ban plastic straws, how will Disabled people get plastic straws"

and I got back a form response "there will be a mechanism for Disabled people to get plastic straws"

no sign of any such mechanism so far, it was just a meaningless statement

[boxofdelights]

Thank you for telling me about the straw thing.