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      Zonnebloem reacted to davejsy's post in the thread Pilgrimage - selfish? with Like Like.
      The OP has a point. Getting to the Camino is going to be in some way detrimental to our planet - how much is just a guess. Walking past concrete buildings with screaming animals in as happened to me in Galicia should never fail to affect you...
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      Zonnebloem reacted to AnneMarie1's post in the thread Pilgrimage - selfish? with Like Like.
      I did the Camino last year for the second time (first time over 20 years ago). I did have some of this experience that you describe. Not exactly the same issues in the same ways, but it did strike me as incongruous that we were all appreciating...
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      Zonnebloem reacted to Arctic_Alex's post in the thread Pilgrimage - selfish? with Like Like.
      Of course there has always been climate change, when it was fast, it was often combined with collapsing ecosystems and sometimes mass extinction. That sort of fast climate change is something human civilizations have not experienced on a global...
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      Zonnebloem reacted to truenorthpilgrm's post in the thread Pilgrimage - selfish? with Like Like.
      I want to honor the OP's feelings of grief, as I felt this deeply upon returning to Bali last summer. I was lucky to "be stuck" on that island for two years during the pandemic. And living there during those quiet pandemic years was equal parts...
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      Zonnebloem reacted to Luka's post in the thread Pilgrimage - selfish? with Like Like.
      To the OP: I can relate quite well to your feelings by seeing all this: the animal abuse, the burnt down forests, the lack of insects... Walking in nature for days or weeks gives you a good vision on what we humans have been doing to the planet...
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      Zonnebloem reacted to Luka's post in the thread Pilgrimage - selfish? with Like Like.
      Most of them were not arson, but farmers burning down gorse and other bushes to create more pasture land. The fires got out of hand due to recknessless, indifference and the very dry weather. The latter one is definitely a sign of climate change...
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