Kairn is a life-long environmentalist, trainer and teacher. She was a principal architect in the landmark campaigns to protect the old-growth rainforests of Clayoquot Sound and the Great Bear Rainforest on Canada’s West coast. Since then she has been working to stop the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, developing and implementing climate policy and organizing for climate justice.
Intertwined with her environmental work Kairn has been a student and teacher focused on the intersection of the inner spiritual and emotional realms with the outer ecological and social crises. Kairn has developed a framework for engaging with the climate crisis in a way that enlivens us and calls into deeper relationship with the world around us.
The amazing thing is that if cut to the core message, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are pretty much saying the same thing at the UN climate conference: The hour is late and we are very far from where we need to be, writes Kairn Carrington.
Sometimes it's hard to realize that I am listening to world leaders in Glasgow, rather than some of my colleagues from my old Greenpeace days, writes Kairn Carrington.
Grief itself is a well-known, well studied human emotion and there is much we have learned from the death and dying process of individuals that can help us navigate this larger ecological grief.
How do we be present to the suffering caused by climate change – and not let it overwhelm us, but rather move through it to a place of hope and empowerment?
