playing catch up
I enjoyed watching the tree movies - it somehow feels good to have them all - these are the many starting points. Everything felt quite safe in a good way apart from Johan's talk that suggested the future didn't exist so science could not have it. We pull the future back to us and invent it but only in the future we also invent the past of a childhood which never existed to propel us forward. It feels that although trees may have more going on about them than we previously thought they probably don't do this.
The thing I felt as I watched the talks unfold was something about where we humans sit within all this, the thoughts that jarred and flowed and connected. I will bullet point a couple for discussion later.
1. The struggle between individual and collective responsibility for the coming storm.
2. The individual nature of experience - we notice the impact of climate change but we notice through how it is represented as a global thing not locally. When I grew up my village would flood every 4-8 years it doesn't now as they built a flood defense. My own personal located experience is important but it is not an indicator of the global.
3. I am most taken with Jonhan's point on hope - without concrete or radical hope there is no reason to take any action. This is simple in an analytical way but perhaps also underpins the reason we are not actually taking action ( Rather than a crazy Neo-liberal capitalist conspiracy) So working with radical hope is essentially what this project needs to do.
4. I wonder about childhood I think we all feel like we can connect to it but maybe like the future it doesn't exist. Peters presentation was the most difficult for me as I really don't want to have to think about those kind of things. At the moment I like to let the idea of childhood bubble along with my own memories and thoughts of my children and the potential future grandchildren. I don't want to over think it or feel like I am thinking it wrong. There are lots of constructions of the child in all sorts of theory and I don't really want to hit any of it face on.
5. I like the question from Jo about if it matters if we know how much carbon is help within a tree - the answer is of course it matters but it opened a gap that needs to be addressed because we don't seem that sure why it matters.
6. There is a lot going on - it is like the snowstorm when it gets shaken we need to let it settle so we can really see what we have inside.
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