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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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Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
David Osborn is a long time participant in the direct action climate movement as well as a faculty member in University Studies at Portland State University. We discuss ways that non-native and settler people (like David and I) might begin to challenge the worldviews and ways of being that they have inherited. If settler colonialism and capitalism have shaped the ways non-native and settler people see the world, and their places within it, how can they begin to challenge that worldview and develop other ways of being - forming different and more intentional relationships with each other and with the rest of the living world? In other words, if the climate crisis is a cultural problem at the deepest level, how do members of the settler culture begin to do the work of profound cultural transformation?
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