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Environmental Feedback Systems

Gravity is “invisible” but not removed from sensation; we can feel the effects of gravity daily, for example dropping something on your foot. In short gravity relates to mass, “People have mass too, and while our physical bodies might not exert gravity the way the Sun affects the Earth, our interests, experiences, appearance, ethics, morals, values, and life choices combine to create a peculiar gravitational pull” (Frono, 2019) on those around us.

As social workers we go to great lengths to understand how our; values, ethics, morals, values, and life, affect our practice. Through this individual introspection we cultivate the type of practitioner we will be.

For me, it seems relevant to analyze the physical environment as a variable which holds tremendous “gravitational pull” on each aspect of ourselves and client population we work with or advocate for. So, to analyze my thoughts I turn to research.

Since most environmental systems are open and interconnected, the changes in any process-response system have effects on many, these effects are known as feedback loops. The term ‘feedback’ refers to the effect that occurs when the output of a system becomes an input to the same system (Smithson et al 2008 p. 12).

Feedback loops may be positive or negative: positive feedback occurs when the effects of an original change are amplified or accelerated to produce a ‘snowballing’ effect, in other words a positive feedback loop… in contrast, a negative feedback loop in the environment occurs as a result of the interaction between predators and their prey (The Earth Systems and its Components).

Let’s think of the metaphor of a tree. A Tree gives us shade: when were hot we might seek it out. However, whither were consciously aware of it or not, medical science tell us that there are feedback loop within our body to regulate body temperature.

This tree is then cut down, we no longer have access to the consciously seeking out shade when we’re feeling hot. In terms of human environment interactions, I purpose that the removal of the tree disrupts a feedback loop that we established with this element of our natural environment.

The lesson is that feedback loops may be interconnected. One action acting as a variable to more than one “loop.” If humans are understood as predators of the environment, that is preying on the natural earth through destructive actions then the result becomes a negative feedback loop.

The who, where, where, when why, how, questions have large answers that are interconnected. Blaming the cause of the occurrence of Environmental Injustice on one system working within a feedback loop (say an oil company or builders who deforest for the means of a new shopping mall) doesn’t work. This is because the systems are interconnected. It seems the best way to advocate for the progression of environmental consciousness is to understand the variables and impacts of each system and begin to make links.

Thus, the Person-In-Environment theory that the practice of social work uses becomes a valuable tool. As I have promoted before, the practice of social work must engage heavy with research to back links with statistical significance. Without empirical research, we are study is a version of, The Myth of Sisyphus, because no large-scale change will occur, in other word, policy change.

It seems pertinent that social work professionals begin or continue to integrate themselves into all professional fields. This integration will allow for elevated pressure on the individual worker as other schooled professionals can provide their theory/research.

From the context of analyzing my personal philosophy on social work I arrived at activism that serves to dismantle the negative feedback loop. I hope that as I continue to learn my “educational mass” increases; thus, exerting a larger gravitational pull. However, I believe that my effectiveness will come from working with other professionals who have a deep understanding of their profession.

What I mean is that my explanation of gravity, feedback loops, environmental science, ecx, would be more valuable if I were working with individuals who dedicated their lives to these practices. With the current state of the environment, now more than ever, it seems so pressing to finally collaborate and leave the typical built environments which we typically preform our professions.

The researcher in a lab has a lot to say but is anyone giving them a platform? Sure, published papers are a platform is only as effective as the amount of professionals it reaches who are going to apply the academia to real world interactions.

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How Did we Come to Regulate Almost Every Aspect of Life Through Policy, Yet, Fail to Properly Politicize the Earth’s Raw-Resources? (sigh)

Bill Clinton could have elaborated, “It’s the political economy, stupid!”
Czech, 2013

The more resourceful humans became with piles of earth capital the longer we survived and the uptake of recourses followed suit. My claim is not irrational and out of it I percive the following–

Expansion of ancient civilizations is the same expansion we see today, however, present-day economics and social structures never imposed a limit to expansion. Or have we? Modern civilization is based on a network of limits imposed upon us through the way we partake in political/social engagements. You stop at a stop sign because you were conditioned to limit your actions through the establishment of rules, which come to us in the form of policy. Our lives, the lives of our clients, are ruled, directed, and governed by policy.

Piles of earth outputs were harvested and capitalized upon from day one. I would argue that earth’s first people did not intend to abuse this capital as they lived so closely with the land that the raw resources sourced from the earth were honored and widely recognized as “sacred” to early civilization(s).

It’s hard to perceive how we came to regulate almost every aspect of our lives through policy but failed to properly politicize the earth’s raw resources.

Recycling can’t represent a 100 percent efficiently working cycle, “pollution is inevitable, and all else equal, more economic production means more pollution. These findings may seem like no-brainers to many, yet neoclassical growth theory has led to wild-eyed optimism regarding “green growth” and “closing the loop” by turning all waste into capital. Such fantasia cannot be soundly refuted without invoking the entropy law.” (Czech, 2013)

A dollar bill is made out of 75% cotton and 25% linen, symbolizing the craft of pure human intelligence, hence we have natural resources made into a sacred artifact. If you had the option of taking a one-hundred-dollar bill or the equitable mass in cotton and linen it seems true that one would opt for the bill. If you had to burn the bill or burn the cotton and linelogically one would burn the latter.

We enforce policy… on that which serves the economy, but WHY regulate the bill and not the natural resource(s) (Cotton and Linen) which make it up.
You can quote me

Remember social workers!

Mainstream economics fails to recognize environmental limits to economic growth
Czech, 2013

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Let’s Not be Stuck in The Myth of Sisyphus: Gravity, Feedback Loops, & Social Work

SHAMIENAROENGBINANG POSTED IN SYSTEM DYNAMICS

The lesson is that feedback loops may be interconnected. One action acting as a variable to more than one “loop.”

If humans are understood as predators of the environment, that is preying on the natural earth through destructive actions then the result becomes a negative feedback loop.

To be Continued…… on the topic of – Professional “Romantic Gravity”

Beauty in the Meta dynamic breakdown: a call for collaboration

Mystified: utterly bewilder or perplex (pbs.org)

The environment brings about a mystified mental state. That’s the beauty of it, enchanting like love, or hearing a symphony, or better yet writing one. Maybe even better is a more logical example: knowing thy whom wrote one, humans mystify. Classically we ponder up mystic(s) of feminine energy, a women, a witch, mother nature (Davis, Gebreyohannes, 2022), that bitch.

Energies which have no body, mental states of negativity searching for an outlet manifested from ye. That’s crowd is a dangerous crowd of pitchforks and shovels mystified is like a fog that doesn’t let you see clearly, it uncovers no truth, no science.

Suspended in a state of disillusion. What we need right now in the flip of a coin toss is the scientific minds not the reverse side of coin which enchants us in art like magic, to be good or to be bad is up to the crowd?

No, we need good minds coming up with a solution to a complex problem that transcends, into breaking time because time is limited, were in the breaking point and this breaking point incorporates, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, meta dynamics, thermodynamics, we need to start solving the questions that those before us left lingering. The solution, at the tip of our tongs and probably right in front of our eyes.

Braund, M., Reiss, M.J. (2019). Can. J. Sci. Math. Techn. Educ. The ‘Great Divide’: How the Arts Contribute to Science and Science Education. 19. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42330-019-00057-7

David, A., Gebreyohannes, N. (2022) Literature. Women and Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. 2(3). Doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/literature2030015

Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism: has the aim(s) of human supremacy but the implications of it are that its derivative of an individualistic mental frame. The ability to expand a one-sided mind is limited by the lack of cultural competence, thus ignorance. Ignorance could be understood as a feeling or an emotionally limited scope, the latter would be the bloom of ignorance, the growth comes from seeing through and seeing out of; we thus become less one-sided; through educating ourselves on the subject you were previously ignorant towards, you see through it. we, you, I; then become the vessel for expanding our own scope of practice. Patience, practice, problems, and permanent lines drawn for yourself become permeable. This is much because with the internet at our fingertips staying ignorant is a suspended stagnant state we have the tool to see out of.

Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry

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Recent Findings

“More people are living near oil and gas development due to the expansion of unconventional extraction techniques as well as near industrial animal operations, both with suggestive evidence of increased exposure to hazardous pollutants and adverse health effects. Legacy contamination continues to adversely impact a new generation of residents in fenceline communities, with recent studies documenting exposures to toxic metals and poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). Researchers are also giving consideration to acute exposures resulting from inadvertent industrial chemical releases, including those resulting from extreme weather events linked to climate change. Natural experiments of industrial closures or cleanups provide compelling evidence that exposures from industry harm the health of nearby residents” Credit to Author

Synthetic Chemicals and Health (A Zota and T James-Todd, Section Editors)
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Chemical Exposures, Health, and Environmental Justice in Communities Living on the Fenceline of Industry

Jill Johnston &
Lara Cushing

Current Environmental Health Reports volume 7, pages48–57(2020)Cite this article

Resources for Prospective Social Workers — The Political Social Worker

Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW The Political Social Worker A couple of days ago a Tumblr follower asked me for some advice about applying to an MSW program. This gave me the idea to put together a small list of resources for perspective (and current) social work students. socialworkhelper.com A social networking site for helping […]
Resources for Prospective Social Workers — The Political Social Worker

Economic Globalization, Sleep-Wake Rhythms & COVID-19

Macro/Policy Environmental Social Work Perspective

Economic globalization become a worldwide trend (Han, 2019). With globalization comes technology. Technology and the environment should be of growing concern. Now more than ever. Given COVID-19, are legislators and enforcers thinking of the stimulus and social welfare in terms physiological rhythms in humans?

Studies show that relevant to the environment (the built environment that is, the once we are all confined to… if heavily impacted by environmental cues; light, noise, and temperature are synchronizing to Sleep-wake rhythms in humans.

As the current state of our lives will have it, much of work is being done in the same spaces we often strive, or should strive to keep sacred. This is because our rhythms are extremely effected by noise pollution, night work, social media, blue light. Thanks to open data it has been found that

“Extensive open-access databases now focus on these disturbing environmental and societal cues”
Damien Legerab & Christian Guilleminaultc

The fields associated with sleep are: noise, light, radio frequencies, transportation, and internet”
Damien Legerab & Christian Guilleminaultc

These environmental open data may help us in understanding better sleep rhythms globally”
Damien Legerab & Christian Guilleminaultc

Insight of the day: “the development index of Digital Economy and Society (DESI), an instrument that can detect a data system in order to quantify the level of technological development at the macro level and the micro level” (Vanessa Russo : Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio-Economic Systems and Social Work pp 427-442| Cite as Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). European Guidelines and Empirical Applications on the Territory)

Global Public Goods(GPGs)

aka Global Social Issue

Global Public Goods (GPGs) is a variable which serves global agendas due to the necessary use of Intellectual Knowledge house in GPGs as platforms for strategic building in developing countries. As social workers engage with international relations the profession must have access to the most recent research. Often research is housed by gatekeepers. Thus, GPGs should be of a global concern for the way that Intellectual Knowledge promotes strengthened links to Resources for Social Workers to utilize within their; scope of practice, research, and application to practice theory.

Mainstream economics fails to recognize environmental limits to economic growth (Czech, 2013). Thus, Social Workers at an international level must engage with and have access to GPGs to support global social welfare; from a community focus to the varying economic impacts that come from GPGs being gated by a numerical cost.

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Sustainability May not be the Methodological Approach to Solving Modern Environmental Issues.

Weitzer (2015) raises a tone, which seems similar to that of Michelle Alexanders, The New Jim Crow (2010). The importance of writer’s, both academic and not, taking the time to not only deepen their scope but develop an agenda that is indicative of a proclamation is beautiful to me. The importance of the writer’s taking the time to not only deepen their scope but develop an agenda that is indicative of a proclamation is beautiful to me. When academics can guide the audience through Facts (statistical analysis) and at the same time frame, the concept which might bring pause to some in an eloquent way has always moved me.

Environment:

What I write above has sat with me for some time. I reflect that this may be why I find, such as deep interest in anything that intersects with the environment. Because the environment is such a hard topic to research in the traditional way, it moves researchers to conceptualize it in a new way. There is and always will be an art of research.

The analysis of healing or health is conceptual because the science of health is built on the theory of health. There is a flexibility to all that is presented as a widely accepted fact.

The definition of the environment is not concrete because it varies as each person or animal requires an individualized ecological system to feel conceptually pleased. I point out that there are aspects of the relationship between optimal homeostasis within a given environment across a specific population, but consciousness leads to optimal homeostasis to vary.

Push the timeline of science further, and you arrive at a few studies which genuinely sought to analyze the effects of the environment on health. Post-op. Patients healed more quickly with windows than without. Children excel in spaces where they can be curious through nature as allostatic loads reduce as natural elements increase. Walks in nature, lower blood pressure, and collateral. These are all quantifiable measures by current scientific methods. A great example if the reduction of the allostatic load upon children with ASD Diagnosis; sensory overload is not optimal in any environment. Much of us feel similar, too much stimulus, and we need to retreat but retreat to what? If you’re lucky, you can flee and find yourself with access to quiet spaces, natural lighting, and maybe even some greenery. Environmental Justice comes into play when those who retreat are met with an environment that is at the same level of sensory stimuli or poses more factors of allostatic load. For example, you head home to relax, and there is no greenery on your walk home, in a city, you will have buses, trains, airports, neighbors nearby, close proximity to car engines, things like crossways and pedestrian ways built close to residential windows. And we must not forget to mention that one may not even have a home; thus, your allostatic load is constantly going unless you are “homeless” in the deep woods, yet, the deep woods to not pose practicality, which is why we see cities with higher rates for homelessness).

The ecological model used by social work and its focus on vulnerable population provides a useful and holistic vehicle for understanding and responding to this social phenomenon” (Chapter 30, P. 204) I find it helpful to reflect this aspect of the practice of social work as I go on to investigate and reflect upon the scope of a particular social phenomenon; the hunt for sustainability.

Sustainability may not be the methodological approach to solving modern environmental issues. – Stay Tuned for the Followup Post

The Nature of Silent-Welfare

Never have I ever ☝️👉 not found silence to be the most resourceful tool when met with disorder. Silence is an action & a weapon when not used appropriately as it likely causes an influx of unbalanced power dynamics. “The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time” (Stephen Hawking) •
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Silence is #selfcare

silence is #introspection

silence is #tactful

silence is #mindful

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At times some will go silent but they are not invisible • each of us has a way of coping & that wayward style is intrinsically comorbid with time & place (#natural & #built)
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Scale silence to many bodies and it’s heard loudly • now scale it down & somehow I find that society has juxtaposed varying stereotypes or archetypal #preconceptions on the scaled down version. Why didn’t you speak up? Why didn’t you reach out? Why didn’t you….? #silence now becomes a result of an unmet #expectation

Personal Stance(s) on Social Welfare and the Intersection of Economic and Political Philosophies

To provide further insight about my own social and cultural experiences -what serves as the driving force for my passions as a social worker is fueled by the discrepancies individuals face in regards to access- specifically that of which comes from the physical world; or Natural Environment. Having grown up in an upper middle class town in CT, my experience of the Natural world was therapeutic and rejuvenating, I unknowingly reaped the benefits of lacking things such as noise pollution and environmental toxins all of which leads to mental and physical health benefits. Through these experiences and my undergraduate courses in Ecopsychology, I believe that at the base of social welfare is the welfare of the environment. None of the authors focused on the connection between the Natural world and Social Welfare. I seek to advocate for environmental justice. Both as an ancient society and modern, humans have founds means to essentially rape the natural world of its resources and through this process; limit access. When access is limited social welfare is negatively affected producing rippling effects upon every member of the society. To me social welfare is defined as- the collective ability which each individual human has to access resources which allow them not only live but thrive, collectively this serves as a reflection of the overall health of the human cohort. I believe social welfare can be examined through a defined population, this is why the social welfare of high class citizens “haves” (higher socioeconomic level) is often better than the social welfare of the lower class citizens “have nots” (lower socioeconomic level) (Segal, 2007).

Wagner (2005) summarizes how labels not only categorize and create a means for distinguishing generalizable information about a person, but also contributes to how information (labels) can be actually be misinformation- consequently leading to stereotypes and negative self-perception. Due to the fact that children cannot choose things like, who they are born to, where they are born, what socioeconomic status they have, exc. I feel it is up to the government to impede upon and into the framework of our society; as much as needed- in order to make sure access to resources is fairly distributed…

Environmentally Displaced Trauma, & Sensory Processing

The New and Tube are not where you want to to get information from… with that being said, scholarly research is costly. social workers can’t advocate without access to research & yet we. lose access to peer reviewed academic articles when we no long hold a connection to the academic world

“Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as well as to the migration crisis in Europe…Our results indicate that climatic conditions, by affecting drought severity and the likelihood of armed conflict, played a significant role as an explanatory factor for asylum seeking in the period 2011–2015” (Abel et. Al, 2019)

Students who leave their homeplace environments left with trauma should be met with an education system that is sensitive to cultivating therapeutic sensory environments. Connecticut should implement a preemptive program that treats trauma in a cost-effective way and through a multidimensional treatment method such as the methods of ASI, which can be integrated into the everyday aspects of the classroom. with the theme of trauma and environment, displaced children experience trauma, possessing a heightened fight or flight response to a stimulus. A highly effective approach for treating sensory symptomology such as ASD diagnosis in children has been, Ayres Sensory Integration Intervention which is an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) that goes beyond a purely medical model and considers physiological, psychological, and social effects of the diagnosis (Schoen, 2018). The duality to these diagnosis and treatment methods such as ASD diagnosis experience poor therapeutic intervention from pharmaceuticals alone (HHS, 2017) in support of this, refugee children as a minority group within the state are less likely to get adequate healthcare and diagnosis.

The Theory is There… Economic Value to the Question of Deep Ecology is not

The relationship between health and nature is a hard topic to research. There are a vast amount of variables that limit the rigor of studies on the subject. Have faith, there is some evidence. The way I see social workers engaging with this at a macro level is questioning why more funding is not going into this topic. The theory is there. Yet, Economic value or incentive to the answer question of deep ecology is not. Economic value is rooted in cultural values. When we don’t value the specific population, we also don’t appreciate what it is they lack. The house on the ocean, in the mountains, within profound secluded nature, is costly. That cost is the outcome of the way we value those spaces… even if we can’t quantify why.

“Deep ecology argues that the natural world is a subtle balance of complex inter-relationships in which the existence of organisms is dependent on the existence of others within ecosystems…Human interference with or destruction of the natural world poses a threat therefore not only to humans but to all organisms constituting the natural order” (Deep Ecology).

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The Relevance of Innovation | Ceditability of Problem Solving for Social Workers at Mezzo & Macro Levels

Social Workers solve problems as do many other professions. Collaboration between professionals in this day and age is necessary to address environmental changes occurring at this moment. To collaborate, Social Workers must go beyond our historic and formalized path. Rationally speaking, this seems obvious.

Yet, I am met with so many dificulties as I approach next steps in reguards to my career paths.

I wonder if other MSW’s or Social Workers not on a clinical path are experiencing the same as I engage with content from various sources, I see the connection between the Social Work methodology. Yet, Language is often symbolic of credibility the person holds, usually a degree.

“When you start to understand global inequality at the local level, it changes how you think about interventions.
If the goal is for low-income countries to close the gap with high-income countries, then the average is all that matters. Many governments and development organizations have concentrated on reaching those who are easiest to reach. As a result, life typically gets better for the best-off first, and then, gradually, for everyone else. Eventually, over the course of decades or centuries, the poorest mostly catch up”
FROM: We Need a More Targeted Approach to Combatting Global Inequality

This quote struck me because of the integration of the word “intervention” – interventions are distinctive of social workers working with individuals, but when we cross over to a mezzo/macro use- this is the same as program analysis and development. The development of interventions to solve a solution for a given population. Does my degree hold the same power as I apply for positions which outline these needs? Or is the content of my resume questioned merely because at face value people stereotype “Masters of Social Work” as a variable of someone’s intellectual knowledge which has credibility through clinical work?

Full Circle. Feedback Loops

I was in the sculpture and instillation program. A dual degree in psychology before I transferred to begin my path in Social Work. However for a brief moment my artistic self was at bay while I studied. It recently has come back through engaging with STEM research and environmental justice work in the form of infographics. The ability to conceptualize is critical but following my artistic intuition has led me further than I knew it would.

It seems I have inadvertently followed a path that led back to the one I started on, but I come back to the arts with a new intellectual knowledge base. Thank you for seeing that. In many ways what’s why I left, I needed more theory and grounding. I felt it strongly my first year at SMFA and it seems that the decision to leave and investigate into the scientific process Comes full circle as I Transcend back into my artist self. There is a newfound respect for my personal and professional self and with that I interject that Social Work is and will continue to be a professional path that brings about deep growth. We and our clients are impacted by the environment- the smallest shifts in the physical are variables to internal mental states. We support the environments of those around us.

Who will win? Man or nature? A Timeless Question

There has been an attempt to turn an actual conversation, which at one point was modern, into some post-modern hype. The children protesting are not posing some satirical Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift, 1729) esque archetype. They are disturbed.

The ongoing public conversation about the environment is grounded in the ancient dichotomy of man versus nature (Harpers Forum, 1990)

This quote rings true today. Policymakers, social advocates, and researchers are bound to an endless loop of rhetoric built around supposed here say. The trendiest of gossip is thus the oldest of gossip. You can almost hear the aristocrat women of the poor houses roll their eyes and whisper, can’t you?

“The children really shouldn’t be living in these conditions” is the logic that persuaded the acceptance of social welfare. Those with money, power, and knowledge, are doing their best to meet the needs of our most vulnerable. Privilege doesn’t come without sympathy, but it inevitably comes far removed from answers or solutions.

Were so perplexed by the modern state that even radical ideology is absent. How long do humans stay entranced by our inability to solve the unsolvable? It seems irrational to believe that funneling more money into the system will bring about any inventive solutions to the “environmental crisis,” especially when we continue to seek out solutions through what sits here in our laps and in our pockets. We, leaving the fate of society in the hands of our computers and not turning to each other to decode this iceberg, are collectively losing.

Do we make it out before Freud’s ice burg (1915) melts away? Can we see into and out through collectively self-actualizing?

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October 2019

Environmental Racism and Systems of Oppression

Gabrielle Conrad-Amlicke | Policy 2020

Frederick Olmsted, an American Landscape designer best known for Central Park (New York, NY) and The Emerald Necklace (Boston, MA), also designed Keney Park (Hartford, CT). Keney Park runs vertically up and down the west half of Hartford’s Northeast neighborhood. The northern areas of this city are where the highest rates of crime and vacancy are reported among a predominately Black population. The decaying aspects of the physical environment contextualize an aspect of loss, both for the community members and potentially for the general public. Despite powerful community-led efforts to reduce violence in the area, ongoing oppression and political marginalization undermine these activities. Fear pushes even those who live in the Northeast neighborhood to seek out other community parks. Thirty-years of activities aimed at improving park conditions have been disrupted by the larger political failures to protect and nourish this neighborhood.

Famous natural spaces have the potential to stimulate individual and economic growth. Why then is Keney Park, which sits almost directly between NYC’s “Central Park” to the south and Boston’s “Emerald Necklace Conservancy” park system to the north, less renowned than its Olmsted siblings?

The answer: environmental racism. Anytime environmental decisions are shaped by the intersectional identities of those benefiting from, or occupying, a particular environment—racism is at work. Social workers must identify and amplify these instances. We must advocate for investment in these environments or else the historic systems of oppression that harm our clients and our profession will never be dismantled.

A Poem; Not Advocacy

Envy is what drives us and to surrender to emotions that mute us — envy results in suspending the mind from movement. Without movement, we are silent observers.

Envious of what the earth could be. Dreamers dream; far from pollution- the rising toxicity of their environment. They envy those who are now dead, those who lived free from contamination.

The materials which assisted in their birth are now their demines.

More born, more educated, more rapid human progress… only now it comes to light, we are our demise.

The platforms I see you on, venting frustration; you seem to live in hate at the moment. It is not hate; you know this. It is envy. The dawn of logical and scientific progress is that which triggers hysteria; present day.

If not for science, where would we be. If not for development where would we be?

What results would come too if nothing had occurred and we stay suspended?

Would the earth be “clean” “green” “sustainable”? See language is a tool.

But we live life without a guide. If we killed god.

Or maybe we are the same in one-

You can not remove the riptide wave from the ocean; a wave cannot be conceptualized as a single entity. Are we all one on this planet?

Science tells us that we are all one and the same; the natural environment and the body are the same materials. Movement is constant; feedback loops persistent.

Movement was not made by hands seeking doom. The movement was made out of envy and questioning how life could be.

The scientific method without a guide.

We question or hypothesize and seek solutions. The human condition is intersected by the light human hand time and time again.

The new hands will find solutions. Once the “environment” “earth” or “natural world” what have you become a deity will we follow it, serve it, surrender to it.

Do we envy the idea of a world where the planet is our god? Surrendering to multiple gods.

We must consider that civilizations that lived in this way serving multiple nature-oriented gods.

…they all still came to their demise.

Envy drives wars. There is always a winner or loser. AS we take back the earth, we’ll wash the blood of thousands off our hands.

Unless those in power now are thought of as vulnerable. The plastic producing plant shuts down- each worker has a family- each family member is now a casualty.

Our oceans grew hot, so we made them run red.

The Environmental Social Worker

Let’s Not be Stuck in The Myth of Sisyphus: Gravity, Feedback Loops, & Social Work

Resources for Prospective Social Workers — The Political Social Worker

Economic Globalization, Sleep-Wake Rhythms & COVID-19

Macro/Policy Environmental Social Work Perspective

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The Nature of Silent-Welfare

silence is #introspection

silence is #tactful

silence is #mindful

Full Circle. Feedback Loops

Social Work and Environmental Justice

SOCIAL JUSTICE SPOTLIGHT

Environmental Racism and Systems of Oppression

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