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How to cope with eco-anxiety
Joanna Macy suggests that people’s responses to concerns about global catastrophes are to ‘go silent, go numb’ rather than protest or retaliate; this ‘numbing of the psyche’ creates an impoverished emotional and sensory life. Energy expended suppressing despair is ‘diverted from more creative uses, depleting resilience and imagination.’
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
My apocalyptic sense is very strong. I feel we have very little time. I rarely hear any people — except, say, Richard Heinberg — talk honestly about how fast our window is closing before all is lost. A lot of us really think it’s too late. So, how do you keep on going?
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Despite the fact that climate change is a pressing concern with material and immediate negative health effects, to put it mildly, it is not of interest to many of the people who are in control of where money and research attention are flowing. There is this idea that climate change can be easily solved, and we already know how to do it. So once tec... See more
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
At some think tank somewhere, guys with pocket protectors and knotted brows are asking their computer models questions like: “If global carbon emissions peak by 2030 and sea-level rise is 1.6 meters by 2050, how many people along the Eastern Seaboard are likely to drown in storm surges, and what will the effect be on national GDP to relocate the re
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