I cannot sleep

Elif İlke Şenkul

I feel guilty when I have spent the day without doing anything against the climate crisis. I cannot sleep.
Elif İlke Şenkul, climate activist, Balıkesir, 15 years

Every night I go to bed I think about what I have done that day. I feel guilty when I have spent the day without doing anything against the climate crisis. I cannot sleep. But if I did I take a deep breath and close my eyes. But then I see fires. I cannot breathe, I feel the lack of oxygen. And I see all the wounds of the world. I say to myself "No, what I did today was not enough." I open my eyes and say to myself: I can try to do my best tomorrow.

Now I ask you: Please close your eyes. Imagine that the world you will encounter when you open your eyes has changed a lot Imagine all the expected climate disasters have happened and you can't breathe.

Such a world is near and that's why it is more and more difficult I get out of bed every morning. I have not lost hope, but I'm running out of energy. Don't you want to support me?

Please don't close your eyes anymore.

Elif İlke Şenkul
Elif İlke Şenkul