The impending collapse of civilization as we know it is also what this podcast toys with. In the book, in inconvenient apocalypse, Wes and I talk about the need to rethink skills, spaces and stories that are essential for a new future. Most of the stories told today,. the implicit message about success is about advancing your career, getting money, getting famous, whatever. Those are not the stories of the future. So where do we look? Well, my co-author Wes Jackson, the book he did before this one, has the provocative title Hogs Are Up.
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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