The table summarises quotations and remarks made by residents from Ghost Valley about ecological grief as they cope with the clear-cut logging project.
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Identified pathways of ecological grief[1] |
Residents from Ghost Valley |
| Grief associated with physical ecological losses and attendant ways of life and culture |
It’s heartbreaking to be quite frank What’s wrong with us?… Where does it come from, this hubristic disregard for the sanctity of the natural world? I’m watching a piece of history slowly being obliterated |
| Grief associated with disruptions to environmental knowledge systems and resulting feelings of loss of identity |
You have to make new meaning, because you can’t take anything for granted – it’s been destroyed I wasn’t prepared for it – I just wasn’t. All of a sudden I’m like struggling with these… big questions …. My personality changed… I have shifted from a cold person that only deals in facts to somebody… very different |
| Grief associated with anticipated future losses of place, land, species and culture |
It’s taking something away and we’re never going to get that back in my lifetime, or probably my kids’ lifetime We still have more harvest to come… it’s almost at a point where I’m feeling the anxiety and grief for what is to come |
[1] Quotations are drawn from personal statements from news articles and in-depth conversational interviews. Compiled by Teo Jing Kai (2019)
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