thegreatstory | CACOR: The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear - Michael Dowd, 2023 @thegreatstory | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I consider this 52-minute presentation delivered via Zoom on May 3, 2023 to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) to be my most important and emotionally supportive video to-date. DESCRIPTION: No one needs convincing that we are living in an age of chaos and breakdowns. Even those without benefit of an ecological understanding of history feel the stress. How do we cope? How can we escape the seesaw of hope and fear? And, crucially, how can we be of support to others who are confused, angry, depressed, or filled with fear, blame, or guilt? Don't miss the amazing Q&A session, one of the best of my life (see Youtube description box) youtu.be/ccsBdr7WKmU
Time-coded table of contents:
00:00 - Intro of speaker, Michael Dowd
01:24 - Slide program begins
01:40 - Description and overview
03:00 - Religious naturalism, compost theology credo
04:40 - Denial / adaptive inattention
05:57 - Catton and Berry quotes
06:47 - How “progress" leads to collapse/ecocide
09:52 - problems vs. predicaments
10:00 - Main issue is ecological overshoot, not climate
12:05 - Thesis
13:31 - Ophuls vs. Pinker and other progress acolytes
16:40 - The ecocidal cult of perpetual progress
18:31 - Collapse & Overshoot in a Nutshell / Hopium
19:57 - Un-trivializing good & evil / nuclear meltdowns
21:30 - Overshoot - Why “solutions” make things worse
22:54 - 4 main drivers of collapse, ecocide, likely NTHE
23:48 - BREAK
24:34 - Great Acceleration / Ongoing and unstoppable
28:15 - Tipping points (thresholds) already passed
30:20 - NASA chart - Last 22K years of temperature rise
31:21 - How denial shows up / Myth of ‘the Almighty We’
32:41 - Four (Deadly Accurate) Metaphors
34:02 - BREAK and REVIEW /
34:42 - Serenity Prayer / why Acceptance is vital
36:16 - Grief, Jenkinson hope-free / Stages of Grief
39:55 - Assisted migration of trees / helping forests walk
40:55 - It’s NOT too late for… / It IS too late for…
42:10 - Cultivating calm gratitude / Benefits of acceptance
45:45 - Karen & Jordan Perry and Meg Wheatley PD videos
46:18 - What’s wrong with hope?
47:50 - Thesis redux / Joseph Brodsky: evil in the language
50:11 - Definitions of doom and post-doom
51:30 - Feelings that reveal acceptance or non-acceptance
52:34 - Final note of encouragement / invitation to watch Q&A
RESOURCES (SCHOLARSHIP on which this program is grounded):
postdoom.com/resources
soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets
thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html
CACOR website: canadiancor.com
I consider this 52-minute presentation delivered via Zoom on May 3, 2023 to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) to be my most important and emotionally supportive video to-date. DESCRIPTION: No one needs convincing that we are living in an age of chaos and breakdowns. Even those without benefit of an ecological understanding of history feel the stress. How do we cope? How can we escape the seesaw of hope and fear? And, crucially, how can we be of support to others who are confused, angry, depressed, or filled with fear, blame, or guilt? Don't miss the amazing Q&A session, one of the best of my life (see Youtube description box) youtu.be/ccsBdr7WKmU
Time-coded table of contents:
00:00 - Intro of speaker, Michael Dowd
01:24 - Slide program begins
01:40 - Description and overview
03:00 - Religious naturalism, compost theology credo
04:40 - Denial / adaptive inattention
05:57 - Catton and Berry quotes
06:47 - How “progress" leads to collapse/ecocide
09:52 - problems vs. predicaments
10:00 - Main issue is ecological overshoot, not climate
12:05 - Thesis
13:31 - Ophuls vs. Pinker and other progress acolytes
16:40 - The ecocidal cult of perpetual progress
18:31 - Collapse & Overshoot in a Nutshell / Hopium
19:57 - Un-trivializing good & evil / nuclear meltdowns
21:30 - Overshoot - Why “solutions” make things worse
22:54 - 4 main drivers of collapse, ecocide, likely NTHE
23:48 - BREAK
24:34 - Great Acceleration / Ongoing and unstoppable
28:15 - Tipping points (thresholds) already passed
30:20 - NASA chart - Last 22K years of temperature rise
31:21 - How denial shows up / Myth of ‘the Almighty We’
32:41 - Four (Deadly Accurate) Metaphors
34:02 - BREAK and REVIEW /
34:42 - Serenity Prayer / why Acceptance is vital
36:16 - Grief, Jenkinson hope-free / Stages of Grief
39:55 - Assisted migration of trees / helping forests walk
40:55 - It’s NOT too late for… / It IS too late for…
42:10 - Cultivating calm gratitude / Benefits of acceptance
45:45 - Karen & Jordan Perry and Meg Wheatley PD videos
46:18 - What’s wrong with hope?
47:50 - Thesis redux / Joseph Brodsky: evil in the language
50:11 - Definitions of doom and post-doom
51:30 - Feelings that reveal acceptance or non-acceptance
52:34 - Final note of encouragement / invitation to watch Q&A
RESOURCES (SCHOLARSHIP on which this program is grounded):
postdoom.com/resources
soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets
thegreatstory.org/sustainability-audios.html
CACOR website: canadiancor.com
