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What attitude should I take towards climate change? 62 uc

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I've been thinking about what it means to act responsibly with regard to climate change. Most of the people in my immediate circle believe that making personal lifestyle changes is a useless response to the enormity of our planet's problems, and my family and friends don't make much effort to eat less meat and dairy, curb consumerist habits, drive/fly less, etc.. I've always been on the fence about this. I want to take action, but I feel Pollyanna-ish bringing my reusable straw to a restaurant or whatever. In terms of even bigger life decisions, as a woman of child bearing age I've been weighing the moral implications of having children given the dire state of the planet.

62 unchanging seems to suggest that small/individual actions are worth taking seriously...Or maybe this reading is affirming the position that I'm just a powerless individual whose actions are small and insignificant. Or something else?

Thoughts?
 

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Hello thoughtfox!
62 unchanging seems to suggest that small/individual actions are worth taking seriously...Or maybe this reading is affirming the position that I'm just a powerless individual whose actions are small and insignificant.
I agree all in all. Do the small things in your power.
 

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Once you start paying attention to the climate change Details you find you start becoming more and more aware of other things too, good things, and it's better to see the sky even though it's scared with chem trails than to stay closed up in your bedroom with the shades drawn. Plus, when you become active in caring for the environment you start connecting with the most amazing, intelligent, compassionate people.
 
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Regardless of the fact that we're often reminded of how small and insignificant we are and that what we do doesn't matter, I'd suggest that the Yi saying you should not underestimate doing small deeds or making small changes.

(It reminds me of the fact that just over half of those eligible to vote voted in the 2016 US elections. So, maybe almost half of us said to ourselves, 'what I do won't matter.')

And also to find what works for you. For example, if you want to make a bigger impact to maybe join with a group or organization.

And ...

'... you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.' - Michelle Obama
 
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Jack Balkin has an interesting take on this phrase from the oracle text: "The flying bird leaves behind its song:". He uses a colon to indicate it's an introductory phrase to the next part, "One should not go up; one should go down." He explains it like this in his commentary:
"Don’t try to show off or call attention to yourself. Be simple and unpretentious and keep your feet firmly planted on the ground. If you are too big for your britches, people will resent you and your projects will fail. But if you are modest and dignified and simply attend to your business, you will earn respect."

So when it says, "The flying bird leaves behind its song," could it mean literally leaves it behind, on the tree branch? I don't think I've ever heard a small bird sing while it's flying - not sure - ? Geese honk while flying, but they're big birds.

Then the oracle text follows all that with "great good fortune." That's pretty strong. It's not at all wishy-washy in its favorableness, which is interesting from such a cautious hexagram.

I also wondered a bit about 62 coming from 61, Inner Truth. This is your inner truth, and that's fine, but it won't be everyone else's. As an attitude to take, maybe the advice is to do what you feel is right, but, per the Image, maybe be more cautious than you might think you should be or need to be, of anything more than that?
 

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Unsurprisingly, Hilary says interesting things in WikiWing. Here's her take on how 28, Great Overstepping, might work as the nuclear hexagram of 62, Small Overstepping:
"Thinking outside the framework of limiting circumstances, even though you must live within it. All the independence and desire of 28 is just compressed into a smaller space. Small overstepping is a practical way of expressing your inner Great Overstepping."
 

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In my experience, with 62 there isn’t much you can achieve.
which could mean that being us around 10 billions on the planet, and having the major changes already started (and can we possibly go back to having no heating and not moving around as we do now? Certainly not) there is little you can do to reverse the situation.
The situation will change when coal and oil will have been used up, and millions of people will find themselves ill from poisoned water and poor food, and so on.

the earth will be just fine,we can only kill ourselves😉
 

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Maybe climate change is just a Detail and the important thing to consider are the selfish attitudes that lead to its manifestation.
 

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