How to talk about the coming changes to planet Earth?

Carolyn Baker in her blog SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER, wrote an outstanding entry this week called "Paradox: Lynchpin of the Long Evergency"  which should be required reading for all of us in the Transition Movement. 

Because some of us in our transition group have been dancing around this issue, this particular paragraph was important to me.

For me, it is crucial to acknowledge and name the collapse of the current paradigm as such. To avoid the word, tip-toe around it in fear of “scaring people,” or cosmetically alter the unraveling of industrial civilization, is essentially tantamount to celebrating a rebirth while ignoring that a death occurred. To deny death while focusing only on transformation reveals the level of denial in which we are steeped and profoundly insults masses of human beings around us who are terrified of the future because no matter how much we prattle about “potential,” “opportunities,” or “resilience,” they are terrified in the marrow of their bones of what the future holds. They do not need us to fluff pillows and bring them a cup of tea, but to validate what they already know is so, even if they are kicking and screaming with all their might against what they know—and to provide them with support for talking about their fears. Every human knows in their gut when someone or something around them is dying because whether we acknowledge it or not, we are connected with everyone and everything on levels which humanity has only begun to understand.

I hope you get a chance to read the whole article.