helplessness

“But I did feel this sadness coming from him — kind of like a helplessness.”

Instead of protection provided by the chief executive, echoing outdated assumptions about women’s helplessness, what American women need are protections for their basic human rights codified into law.

“There’s a feeling of helplessness and even guilt knowing that these people have paid the ultimate price for something which is in all of our interests.”

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on climate anxiety — and on the feelings of helplessness that have simmered in the hearts and minds of so many friends and colleagues.

Anger, frustration, helplessness, exhaustion — these are the emotions I come across more often when getting to know the communities bracing for, or recovering from, the devastation of what they’ve long considered home.