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Tracing the Roots of the Climate Crisis
by Ben Cushing
This podcast explores some of the root causes of the climate crisis. But, maybe surprisingly, it doesn‘t spend very much time talking about the climate crisis itself. Instead, it examines the ways that climate change grows from the same root as other crises we face, including racial and gender injustice and economic exploitation and precarity. Each of the four chapters of this podcast will explore the roots of the climate crisis from different angles - ranging from a discussion of the consequences of the capitalist economic system, to an examination of the cultural stories that justify colonialism, genocide and slavery. And throughout, it will try to keep sight of our own agency to resist systems of power and to co-create alternatives to the way things currently are.
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Ron Reed and Kari Marie Norgaard on Fixing the World
Ron Reed and Kari Marie Norgaard discuss the deep social and ecological violence and transformations imposed on Karuk land and people within the last century and a half of colonialism. We also explore the deep anti-colonial work of healing land and people. Ron Reed is a Karuk Tribal Member. He’s a cultural biologist for the Karuk Tribe, a traditional dipnet fisherman, co-founder of the Karuk - UC Berkeley Collaborative and leader within Karuk Climate Change Projects. His work centers on efforts to restore traditional ecological and social practices as a way to fix the world. Dr Kari Marie Norgaard is the non-native author of Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature and Social Action. She’s a Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Her previous publications include the excellent 2011 book Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life.
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Season 2 Teaser
Season two coming soon! Over the next several weeks, I’ll be sharing interviews with academic and community leaders. We’ll be trying to get our heads around the shape of the problems we face, and we'll be exploring some possible directions toward better futures.
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Chapter 4: Dreams
In this chapter, we reflect on our dreams. As a society, what kinds of dreams have we inherited? What are their consequences? And what kinds of dreams do we need, in order to survive the future, and heal?
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Chapter 3: The Walls Built in Our Minds
In this chapter, we explore the ways that cultural ideas, such as our categories of division, function to maintain and justify various systems of domination and exploitation - from white supremacy to extractive capitalism.
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Chapter 2: Capitalism
In Chapter 2, we explore a pretty unnerving question: Is the climate crisis, and the ecological crisis more broadly, the predictable outcome of a certain economic order?
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Chapter 1: Systems
Social systems shape the lives we live and the people we become. So, any meaningful examination of the climate crisis is going to have to consider how certain systems produce certain outcomes for people and the land. So in Chapter 1, we tackle systems.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast explores some of the root causes of the climate crisis. But, maybe surprisingly, it doesn‘t spend very much time talking about the climate crisis itself. Instead, it examines the ways that climate change grows from the same root as other crises we face, including racial and gender injustice and economic exploitation and precarity. Each of the four chapters of this podcast will explore the roots of the climate crisis from different angles - ranging from a discussion of the consequences of the capitalist economic system, to an examination of the cultural stories that justify colonialism, genocide and slavery. And throughout, it will try to keep sight of our own agency to resist systems of power and to co-create alternatives to the way things currently are.
HOSTED BY
Ben Cushing
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