Climate Change - Ways of Meeting the Challenges - Challenges to our Ability to Engage - Social Challenges - Positive Views and News - Submitted by Participants
CLIMATE CHANGE
1. What’s Happening
- Rapid changes in a warming Alaskan sea are "40 - 50 years" ahead of projections.
- Data about different aspects of the changes.
- Climate change documentaries and comments.
- A brief, grim, cinematic call to recognize what is happening.
2. Implications of Climate Change
- Security Implications of Climate Change. ‘Written by Australian security think tank researchers
- The heat is on ….
- Analysis | The world’s climate emergency is getting harder to ignore
3. Deep Adaptation
- One of the first papers to express the implications of climate scientists being too cautious. The movement called “Deep Adaptation” is one of the best sources for hopeful adaptation.
- This link takes you directly to the paper itself
- Or this 15 minute video which is a summary of the above paper
- Interview with Joanna Macy and Jem Bendell
- Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy [NEW]
- A series of blog posts by Jem Bendell as the implications of the Deep Adaptation work move and change him in the period after publication of the his paper. They may help others too.
https://jembendell.com/2019/01/09/hope-and-vision-in-the-face-of-collapse-the-4th-r-of-deep-adaptation/
https://jembendell.com/2019/04/12/fourteen-recommendations-on-living-beyond-collapse-denial/
https://jembendell.com/2019/07/07/a-year-of-deep-adaptation/
https://jembendell.com/2019/10/12/deep-adaptation-quarterly-oct-2019/
4. Responses to Jem Bendell
- Jeremy Lent and his response to Jem Bendell [NEW]
- Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell [NEW]
WAYS OF MEETING THE CHALLENGES
1. Reactions
- Some people are saying, "what's the use ... why should I go ahead?"
- Youth rises; climate change deniers as big a threat to children as abusers https://theconversation.com/the-gloves-are-off-predatory-climate-deniers-are-a-threat-to-our-children-123594
2. Responses
- Wild imagination as resource
- Extinction Rebellion. Heading for extinction and what to do about it
- American Psychological Association report on mental health/community health impacts, with remedies
- Effect of climate change on well-being of young people
3. Embracing and Integrating
- Erich Fromm's Six Rules of Listening [NEW]
- Barre Centre for Buddhist Studies, Mindfully Facing Climate Change. An online lecture series.
- Using Joanna Macy’s work to help people meet the challenges
- The Greatest Danger - Joanna Macy
- How to speak on the questions around climate change and source material for creating /joining existing groups
- Link to Tamera Peace Research organisation that has been manifesting a connected way of living for many years
- Gratitude, Grief and Finding Your Yes
4. Reconnecting with Nature
- Falling in Love With the Earth [NEW]
- Rewilding - Micah Mortali - "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home" - Gary Snyder [NEW]
- Link to Tamera Peace Research organisation that has been manifesting a connected way of living for many years https://www.tamera.org
- Talk by David Suzuki
- Nature deficit disorder / connecting children with nature
- Lecture in Brazil with Richard Louv author of Last Child in the Woods. A bit slow to get going (skip the first 12 minutes or so) but full of updated info and connections with the bigger issues we are considering.
- Link to Children and Nature website
- The Overstory by Richard Powers - review: a majestic redwood of a novel
CHALLENGES TO OUR ABILITY TO ENGAGE
1. The Left-Right Divide
- The political divide around accepting or denying taking action to avert climate change
- What is the Green New Deal and how would it benefit society?
2. Overwhelm
- The dangers of willful blindness
- We might be reaching ‘peak indifference’ on climate change
- This is a reflection on the paper by Jem Bendell cited above
3. Inclusiveness
- This is an analytical paper from The National Center for Atmospheric Research with deep understanding of the need for processing unpleasant news somatically, not simply intellectually. MORE BAD NEWS: the risk of neglecting emotional responses to climate change . . .
- A more inclusive view of addressing the needs of our human world
- Common sense; but often not very common.
- Complicating the narratives
4. Alternative Media
- Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A collection of resources offered without endorsement to help you diversify your information sources.
SOCIAL CHALLENGES
1. Us and them
- More on the connections between white supremacy and the ecological movement
- How right wing thought hijacks the conversations
- Eco-fascism is undergoing a revival [NEW]
2. Macro-economics
- Article about movie of Thomas Picketty’s ground breaking work on distortions in the economic structure of the western world that has exacerbated many of the problems we are facing
- A short introduction to Piketty’s ideas easy to understand.
- A TED talk by Piketty which gives good detail. Pausing it at times to analyse the graphs he puts up is worthwhile.
- An analysis and debate about the validity of Picketty’s work
3. Bunker Hunker-Down
- Theme of the ultra rich planning their survival after the breakdown of the current order. A lengthy article with a NZ connection.
4. Revolution
- Extinction Rebellion: this society is collapsing
- Extinction Rebellion: pamphlet for radical social change
- Extinction rebellion: Roger Hallam on non-violent disruption to raise public awareness.
5. Adaptation and Opportunity
- Power, equality, nationalism: how the pandemic will reshape the world [NEW]
- Adapting to climate change
6. Artificial Intelligence
- A compelling documentary about the development and dangers of artificial intelligence.
7. Extinction?
POSITIVE VIEWS AND NEWS
1. The Natural World
- Wild Soul - A Nature Poem
- Becoming aware of the vastness and the complexity of the interpenetration of the life forms supporting us that live in the soil under our feet
- Photographs of our amazing planet
- Sy Montgomery speaking about the minds of animals and connecting with them
- How to be a good creature - Sy Montgomery [NEW]
- Falling in Love with the Earth: An Invitation to Healing and Connection [NEW]
2. New Views
- The Declaration of Interdependance [NEW]
- This short film is itself a mesmerizing reflection on how opening our eyes to who and what is around us allows us to be moved.
- Margaret Wheatley on finding hope in hopelessness
- The value of unlearning
- What is Well Being and the ethics of possibility
- The gift of presence and the perils of advice. How active listening is the best advice
3. Active Engagement
- Overcoming the Brain's Negativity Bias
- Speaks about a 14th century cabalistic story of the “ 36 righteous ones” whose existence is vital to the survival of the human race. Very inspiring and thought provoking.
- A different view of using circles as ways to communicate and understand
- Parker Palmer on what the meaning of community really is
- Nipun Mehta on the gift ecology… the importance of dana
- Margaret Wheatley on living with uncertainty
- Excellent article on having difficult conversations and ways to approach. Perhaps an article for group participants?
4. Culture Change
- Power, equality, nationalism: how the pandemic will reshape the world [NEW]
- You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
- What’s possible by embracing models that help the planet rather than damaging it. Offering a compelling and attractive vision of the future.
5. Joyful Ways to Heal
- Herd: A Spiritual Journey
- Duck therapy helping Intensive Care patients
- How should we teach children about climate change without scaring them witless?
- Sand Castle (ecological breakdown through the eyes of a 13 year old) [NEW]
6. Indigenous Inspiration [NEW]
- An indigenous Critique of the Green New Deal.
- The 1990 movie that introduced the Kogi people from Central America to the world.
- Aluna is the 2012 followup movie made by and for the Kogi to actively try to move the western world on a path of sustainablity.
- Save the planet. A message from the Kogi.
- Tiwaiwaka. A message from Rob McGowan sharing the principles of Maori healers on healing the land in order to heal ourselves.
Submitted by Participants
Extinction and the Revolution of Love
I am finding Charles Eisenstein's work incredibly interesting, putting words to many things I have felt and intuited for some time about the mainstream climate narrative.
I think you will find it resonates. His latest essay "Extinction and the Revolution of Love" provides a great overview of his recent book "Climate, a new Story".
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/extinction-and-the-revolution-of-love/?_page=6
I am finding Charles Eisenstein's work incredibly interesting, putting words to many things I have felt and intuited for some time about the mainstream climate narrative.
I think you will find it resonates. His latest essay "Extinction and the Revolution of Love" provides a great overview of his recent book "Climate, a new Story".
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/extinction-and-the-revolution-of-love/?_page=6
Being Present to Climate Change with Thomas Hübl & William Ury
Kia ora, Here is a video resource that I found profoundly inspiring that maybe helpful to share widely.
https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6475137521287168/5546778416381952
Kia ora, Here is a video resource that I found profoundly inspiring that maybe helpful to share widely.
https://is-tracking-link-api-prod.appspot.com/api/v1/click/6475137521287168/5546778416381952
Will humanity survive this century? Sir Martin Rees predicts 'a bumpy ride' ahead.
"There is the idea that we should despair and evacuate this planet and go somewhere else. That's a dangerous delusion."
www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/will-humanity-survive-century-sir-martin-rees-predicts-bumpy-ride-ncna934071
"There is the idea that we should despair and evacuate this planet and go somewhere else. That's a dangerous delusion."
www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/will-humanity-survive-century-sir-martin-rees-predicts-bumpy-ride-ncna934071
What Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy can offer in the Anthropocene
aeon.co/ideas/what-viktor-frankls-logotherapy-can-offer-in-the-anthropocene
aeon.co/ideas/what-viktor-frankls-logotherapy-can-offer-in-the-anthropocene
