Optimismus in Zeiten des Klimawandels

My name is Celina and today in the new video it's about optimism in times of crisis, how and why we stay optimistic. What is optimism at all? It's not that easy to find a uniform definition. You can also concentrate on a few things that you can draw on. That means you assume that everything will have a good outcome. With optimism, however, you can also actively work on your goals yourself, that things go well. That means it's also a bit about what actions you choose. Do I put my head deep in the sand when something bad happens? Or do I work on it myself, maybe to see things from a different point of view? With optimism, it is also very important that it has to be realistic. This is also a boundary that you have to find for yourself, because otherwise you may not be able to deal with disappointment so well. That means you can also reduce the expectations of certain situations and things a bit and not get a real low because the disappointment would simply be too great. That means you just have to find a balance. Now to get to the topic of the forest. Many pictures all over Germany on our own front door are very oppressive when you see pictures of limestone slabs, of dead spruces and so on. We also mean times of crisis. The forest is suffering from climate change. The whole system that no longer works due to human intervention. You don't find a closed roof anymore. That's why it rains less. We enjoy it a lot when it finally rains and are always very grateful for it. Then it also depends a bit on what actions you choose. I just said that you shouldn't put your head in the sand, but do something about it yourself. Sometimes it's not that easy on your own. Maybe you can look for friends or family or join a nature conservation association or simply a civic initiative. There is also a video about it. We would like to link it to you down here so that you don't feel so helpless yourself and stay tuned. They might motivate you again. It also gives you a lot of strength again to see the whole topic of the forest a little differently in times of crisis. The whole topic doesn't leave me cold either, of course. When I'm out in front of the pet in my hometown and I also see interventions that you may not have agreed with or how the snow dies off. Everything looks so sad. The quiet places that you have found are somehow no longer there with their everyday walks. Somehow everything disappears. That can be quite depressing. Why I myself still remain optimistic, I'll show you on another area. Why are we optimistic now? You can see many dead fish plantations in many places. This is an area that was affected by the Kyrill storm. Some fish have fallen over there. And you can already see what's coming up here. Then the following succession. There are so many different species of trees that have settled here on their own, for free. Without special planting. Here comes a cranberry, an oak, red beech, a hazel, hay beeches are in between here. So it's incredible. And yes, instead of going into the meadow, we can now just say, hey, this is a new chance that the fish that we have at home, we wish them that they can go home again. These are really great trees. We have nothing against pine trees. But if they are allowed to grow there, where they are originally from, they really have a lot of homesickness. So now there's a chance that a great mixed forest can be settled there. With species that just feel at home there. And you see, it goes very quickly by itself. Nature conservation is always also human protection. And yes, it would just be nice if we were still there. You see, nature does it all by itself. It takes everything back. But of course it would also be nice if after the next generation we can still find great places of rest in the forest. And yes, not always just find these bare areas again. But it shows that nature just has a lot on it. Does that mean in the other way around that we are no longer allowed to use wood? Of course we still have to use wood. We also want to sit on a nice chair. But it's about the way we do it. The bare area is of course catastrophic. You always compare the pictures with the biodiversity of such a beautiful meadow that you can find. Everything blooms there, there are insects swarming around. And in the forest, at first glance, it is not so clear that there can also be a great diversity of species. But here in the ground there is a lot of unknown. There is so much that we don't know yet. Most of the species have not even been discovered by us. These are fungi, these are bacteria, there are an incredible number of soil organisms that play together. So it's an incredibly great organism that we find here. And that's why I also say to have the courage to do nothing. Because they are super interwoven. They speak the same language. The whole soil organism with the beautiful leaf moss forests, with the beech oak forests that we can also find here in Wershofen. This is a totally great system that works together. And yes, you can just lean back. That's why we continue to fight for the forest. Because we don't lose hope, we don't lose optimism. And that's not possible without it. But we also see it on site. There are a lot of kind people coming who visit us, who want to learn something, who also build an emotional connection to the great ecosystem, to trees themselves and pass it on. That makes us optimistic again. Yes, in conclusion, I would like to give you a quote from Albert Einstein. Problems can never be solved with the same way of thinking through which they were created. In this sense, take care. I hope you enjoyed the video and we'll see you next time. Feel free to leave us a subscription, also a thumbs up. We would be very happy about that. And yes, see you!