“My theory of change is to be”
I have just had the immense privilege of spending the last week in the Yarra Valley on a Global Optimism Climate Leaders’ Retreat led by Christiana Figueres - for six years the world’s top climate negotiator as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - and the abbott and a dozen monastics from Plum Village - the Vietnamese Buddhist tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh.
I do not intend to attempt to explain what we did and learned.
But I’ve written up some reflections on how what I experienced relates to my research - to my readings, of Hannah Arendt and of decolonial scholars and writing on ecological agency and on transformation as against transition, and to my evolving questions around how we situate ourselves in time, how we perceive our agency, and how we imagine and practice freedom.
And hooooooo is there a lot!
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Thank you, Sir David Attenborough, for your love of the world, and for sharing it with us for 100 years.
This letter is one of my most treasured possessions. I sent him my book when it came out, with a letter of gratitude, and he replied!
Happy birthday, Sir David 🌎
Banning words and phrases breaks democracy.
I wrote this post a few weeks ago, but it’s just getting more relevant.
“The whole point of making the debate about particular phrases which we can or can’t use is to make sure we don’t talk about the actual issues or, heaven forfend, actually do something. It’s not about distraction, to be clear - it’s about breaking politics, and boiling it down to simple coercive power.”
Full post here: https://in-between-days.ghost.io/globalise-the-hows-your-father/
Happy 20th birthday to this iconic anarcho-ecological assemblage! Cannot believe it. WTF will the next two decades bring?! Much joy, love, and good trouble, I hope! Biggest love to @jimmy_eats_screws_and_nails
In today’s other fabulous news, the spotted pardalotes are back in my garden!
This is a photo from two years ago - couldn’t get one this morning. They’re too speedy!
A scrappy selection of half thoughts from my most deeply thought-out post yet at In Between Days. If you want to read, please subscribe at the link in my bio!
New post over at In Between Days, where I say, hmmm, it’s almost as though it might be useful for those in power to keep us arguing about what words we can and can’t use. instead of, you know, doing politics.
