Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 1 — Climate Feelings)

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Jul 17, 2024

Naomi Klein, a renowned author and filmmaker focused on climate change and social justice, joins series producer Judee Burr to discuss the emotional realities of the climate crisis. They explore how Klein's graduate seminar transformed students' feelings about climate change into evocative narratives. The conversation reveals poignant student reflections on grief, resilience, and the personal connections that intertwine with academic pursuits. They emphasize the urgent need for deeper emotional understanding in the face of ecological challenges.

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INSIGHT

Emotions Matter In Climate Science

Academic training often forces emotional distancing from climate work, but those feelings persist and matter for researchers' wellbeing and integrity.
Naomi Klein argues creating spaces to engage climate-related emotions makes scientists better researchers and colleagues.

ANECDOTE

Broken Pier And Willows At Jericho

Ali Tafreshi recounts visiting a pier and two willows at Jericho Beach that were broken in a storm, describing rituals and shared grief with strangers.
She describes a flooded park and an elderly woman acknowledging the changes as 'climate change' while standing in the water.

ANECDOTE

Canoeing As A Practice Of Kinship

Foster Sallpeter describes how canoeing creates deep place-connection through millions of practiced strokes and the sensory 'pukk' of a good stroke.
He frames all waters as kin and deserving of love regardless of their condition.

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Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.

This first episode, “Climate Feelings,” is a collection of students’ non-fiction essays and reflections on their personal realities of living with and researching the climate crisis. The first episode opens with an introductory conversation between Naomi Klein and series producer Judee Burr that contextualizes how this class was structured and the writings it evoked.

Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.

“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel

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Part 1: Climate Feelings

2:38 — Introduction by Judee Burr and Naomi Klein

19:05 — Connection to Jericho Willows by Ali Tafreshi

22:27 — Connection to the Water by Foster Salpeter

27:06 — Connection to Family and Land by Sara Savino

31:01 — Scientists and Feelings by Annika Ord

36:00 — Biking away from the Smoke by Ruth Moore

39:32 — Climate Sensitivity on the Bus by Nina Robertson

43:13 — Grief and Climate Change Economics by Felix Giroux

46:36 — The Age of Sanctuary by Melissa Plisic

52:04 — Age of Tehom by Maggie O’Donnell