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E-book Climate Lyricism

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Whenever i think about climate change, which is often, I strug-gle to make sense of its enormity. So much seems to be at stake. Maybe everything. And there’s not a lot of time to try to blunt its most destructive impacts. Yet I don’t know if anything I do matters. I feel powerless. I run through the routine of my days, scurrying from one activity to the next while one thought gives way to another in an unrelated jumble, and this is all that my existence seems to amount to, a blur of mere busyness in the shadow of a colossus remaking shorelines, altering the seasons, transforming planetary hydrologic cycles, ending the evolutionary pathways of billions of living be-ings, and changing the very quality of the air and water. I don’t want to dwell on the topic of climate change. I want to focus on the tasks right before me and the easily graspable texture of my immediate surroundings. These seem so much more manageable. It’s not that I don’t care. I do very much. I just don’t know what good thinking about it all the time will do.Maybe you feel this way too. Maybe, like me, you too want to retreat into the everyday as a kind of refuge. If so, why do you and I feel this way? So much of it comes down to the fact that you and I lack strong models of a shared agency. Your ability to act in ways that have the intended effects is in doubt. You don’t know how to connect with others and find ways to expand what you can do alone, so that together you can act in a way that makes a difference. Every such act would embolden you more, putting you in a loop. You can feel a power growing as you connect with more and more people and as ideas gain a solidity that you find irresistible. Others feel their pull too. More and more people line up alongside you, as you line up alongside them, to keep pushing to make those ideas real. They are not just full of potential, nor have they entered the realm of the possible. They exist as something more tangible, and you will not be satisfied until they are fully realized.I want to find ways to democratize agency that break the spell of powerless-ness, so that thinking about climate change emboldens rather than leads to a shrinking back. The models of shared agency I am after focus on collective approaches to problem solving. They are mindful of constraints and limita-tions, because they must be. They are aware that any one form of agency is not the only source of action in the world, and they work actively against no-tions of a preordained progress and mastery. They decide their own goals and test them out constantly to see if these are the destinations they want. And they keep pushing toward these goals and hopefully in the process become more effective. What I am calling climate lyricism refers to this self-conscious working through. It is the striving for a practice that insists, as the philos-opher and activist Grace Lee Boggs insisted, that thinking should not be separated from doing.1 Thinking is itself a form of doing, and doing is a form of thinking.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

333.7 HYO c

Penerbit

London : Duke University Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

257 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781478022350

Klasifikasi

333.7

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Natural Resources and Energy, Environment

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