PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 19, 2023
The unfolding of catastrophic weather events is a global problem. It is caused by so many players well beyond my control: Big Oil; the big banks like Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, which fund new oil infrastructure; big meat producers like Tyson and Cargill. I spent 50 years as a psychotherapist helping people find answers to problems that felt overwhelming and out of their control. Depression, anxiety, addictions: All rise out of feelings of helplessness. Now, I have pivoted from working with individuals on unresolved family, career or self-esteem issues, to the question of what we, as ordinary individuals with lawns to mow and kids to feed, can do in the face of this terrifying global problem. Action is the antidote to despair. ~ Kathleen Sullivan, Freeport