I think that it's something that young people in particular are waking up to now. I mean, they're just sort of coming to the age now where the younger ones are going to start graduating university. There is nothing for them to have now. They had to create. So any stories that empower those young people to do it are great. As long as we're swapping stories, I want to tell a story about how progressive people have left-wing ideology. And I consider myself a hardcore lefty can also get in the way and how we have to break through some of that.
If we can’t undo the damage, how do we survive it?
Bob Jensen, political theorist, is the co-author of An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. He joined me to discuss the book’s message: transitioning humanely to a more equitable and a smaller society will demand creativity, resilience and community.
In this episode, we swap stories on those themes, telling tales of friends who marked us, communities who are forming in the face on political instability, the importance of storytelling as a tool with which to remind us of the best of humanity. This is a moving interview which intertwines knowledge with emotional honesty in the face of potential collapse.
During, I also introduce a new project, WE WILL BEAR WITNESS, which documents stories from around the world detailing the perils and resistance of this moment in history. Sign up to bear witness.
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