Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

Why should we care to continue at all if our land is lost and gone?

This is a hard reality.

Some get killed protecting their home and forests.

The most vulnerable are being affected the most.

For example, First Nation people and climate refugees.

I believe we need to make room for this sorrow, this pain, to make room for our vulnerability, to make room for all the complicated feelings related to the ongoing nature and climate crisis.

Because this room potentially also creates an opportunity to act.

Yeah, that's right.

If you survive a really deep existential crisis, and I want to say this to those of the listeners who maybe are in that state, there's always a way out.

We need to reach out and try to find some social support.

So we need to take one day at a time and to create that room for hope, we need to...

to spend time outside and see that life is still going on.

And when I'm trying to take care of the forest that I live next to, then I'm also taking care of myself.

I think it's really important to point out that this is not

individual task.

Connect with the community that works on this issue.

We need to stop the destruction, we need to cut our emissions and we need to do it now.

But I also think that we need to explore our relationship with nature once again and reclaim it.