Die Creatively
In further reading about climate change, the philosophers take it in a different direction, wrestling with the notion conceptually, rather than digging into the edges and trying to chew it bite by bite, sciencewise. A new term to me arose in reading a paper by Campbell, McHugh, and Ennis - "bleak optimism: the realization that climate change has already happened, and that human civilization must learn how to die in a way that is a creative and just foreclosure of the Earth’s organizational forms."
But in the getting there is a great thrashing around for me through dense philosophical jargon that I believe is pointing to the notion that climate change is outside of thinking (maybe it contains thinking?) but is made of different stuff that we can not only not comprehend but certainly not manage.
They call it "unbounded, incalculable, and unthinkable, an organizational form without human precedent."
And then there is this dark and true sermon by Chris Hedges. I can no longer engage with magical thinking.
But in the getting there is a great thrashing around for me through dense philosophical jargon that I believe is pointing to the notion that climate change is outside of thinking (maybe it contains thinking?) but is made of different stuff that we can not only not comprehend but certainly not manage.
They call it "unbounded, incalculable, and unthinkable, an organizational form without human precedent."
And then there is this dark and true sermon by Chris Hedges. I can no longer engage with magical thinking.
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