Originally planning to rally behind the upcoming global labor strike for climate justice, Earth Strike, our group began as a group of strangers with similar ideological perspectives. However, we quickly found ourselves feeling hopeless as we consumed the course material. Earth Strike appeared to be too vast for us to make a concrete addition, and as the strike date isn’t… Read more »
A striking part of Active Hope speaks towards how our attitudes about the world around us affect our consumption habits. Many industries rely on our unhappiness to make profits. The beauty industry, fast fashion, and many other “non-essential” (and often aimed at women) industries use our insecurities to make us feel as though we can become emotionally well through consumption…. Read more »
Response to: https://courses.washington.edu/ps301a2019w/imagery-of-extinction/ The hell of nuclear war conjures up vivid images of mushroom clouds, vast military power, horrific death, pain, and suffering. When we imagine the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we imagine the destroyed buildings, massive death toll, and people ill from radiation poisoning. It tugs at our existential fears: life, death, suffering, control, and more. For me,… Read more »
We have examined the adaptive cycle- exploitation, conservation, release, and reorganization- through micro and macro lenses. The adaptive cycle can be viewed environmentally, following the rise and destruction and rise again of the Permian Period following the release of CO2 from the Siberian volcanoes, changing the global ecosystem and lifeforms nearly 252 million years ago. (Zimmer, 2018) The adaptive cycle can… Read more »