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Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell

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The Importance of Active Hope

I think of global temperature rise and parts per million of carbon rising as this kind of declinism, like it's inevitable. And your reframe is so helpful. I'm also thinking of Martin Shaw, mythologist, he says, stop saying the earth is doomed. It's like we're walking out of a movie 15 minutes early, you know, 15 minutes before the end or positing dominion over the miraculous. What he says, could we hold the potential of possibility a little bit more? As Joanna Macy says, practice active hope,. You know, something that we do rather than something that we have.

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