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Last night I woke up suffocating and gasping for air. Congested from a cold, I work up to a world of burning rainforests, cries for help, witnessing destruction at its worst. I made an effort to awaken from the nightmare, but remembered that I was fully awake, living the world’s biggest nightmare. I tried to calm myself down, but the breath, my only tool for reassuring my body, was failing. In that moment, the Amazon was inside of me, and we were burning together, breathless.
Overtaken by the oppressive forces of far right extremism and greedy capitalism, our planet is burning down, drowning, dying right in front of our eyes. Dominated by the egocentric aggressive powers, devoid of empathy and compassion, our current world order has a tight grip on us, guiding us into straight into an abyss. We all ask ourselves: What has happened? How have we come to this? We blame those in power, and juxtapose ourselves with those ´monstrous´ forces, idealizing the pure intentions in our fight for a better world. Yet deep inside we know that what we see in the outer world, in politics, in the economy, in our social fabric has deep root in each and every one of us. The dark forces we so vehemently condemn in the outer world are choking us from within. And unless we transform the inner world, the outer destruction will continue.