We’ve been rewatching Studio Ghibli movies this week, because the seven-year-old doesn’t remember them. Tonight’s movie is Nausicaa, and it’s upsettingly thematically appropriate…
We also cannot breathe the air without masks right now.
The thirteen-year-old heard rain on the roof, excitedly ran outside, and… immediately started coughing, because the air quality hasn’t actually improved.
It started raining… and the air quality got worse.
September weather in Oregon used to be my favorite. Now we can’t even go outside.
We need climate action at a scale that can’t be done by individuals biking or recycling. We need to reign in the corporations doing this to us.
“It’s in the air. The atmosphere is saturated with anger.”
—Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind