Image from: https://philosophersforchange.org/2012/06/05/philosophy-as-critique-and-ideology/. There are three common perspectives that people take on the world: optimism, pessimism, and realism. Of course, people are rarely ever strictly one thing, and will experience a mix of worldviews depending on their day and major life events. Why does it matter how we frame the water in the glass? The water remains the same amount whether it… Read more »
The most important part of “How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change” for me was that the film framed the people most affected by climate change, the people in the low-lying areas being ravaged by environmental disasters, as the people who cared the most about the issue. I can’t tell you why,… Read more »
While the distinctions between ‘apathy’ and ‘an overwhelming sensation of caring too much and having your mind shut down’ create different views of how humanity reacts, it still leaves us paralyzed. Emotions and action are still not happening whether it’s because they never existed or they were shut off or ignored. Either way, there’s no way to definitively prove the… Read more »
I have often felt a feeling of resentment and frustration arise when meditating on the changes to my lifestyle that would be necessary to achieve a more sustainable future. A frustration fueled by comparison to those who came before me who were allowed to live their lives without the level of thought and responsibility as our generation must have. A… Read more »
The point of this class is to care enough to learn and then spread awareness about the impact of our actions. I came in not knowing what the word ‘Anthropocene’ meant. I now know it means humans are a geological force. We are glaciers and meteors and our change is affecting the entire world. However, with the dawning realization of… Read more »
Out of all the readings, class discussions, and media I’ve covered so far for this class I was by far the most taken aback by Donella Meadows’s piece, Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. Reading this piece turned into such a delight for me, a rare experience where just reading her writing made me fully aware of how… Read more »
Educated in a school insisting students had the power to change the world, I was fed guidelines that would save us all. We should consume less plastic, bike more, and eat less meat to limit our carbon footprints. The “important single agent” concept struck me as a movement without the solution to the issue: the menacing drought of climate change… Read more »