thegreatstory | Dahr Jamail: Post-doom with Michael Dowd @thegreatstory | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Dahr Jamail as guest with Michael Dowd, host. Recorded in December 2019.
TITLE: "In Post-doom, Follow Your Heart" • Click "SHOW MORE" for timecoded list of topics:
00:43 - Three Previews
02:44 - Dowd opens with quick overview of Jamail's contributions: climate dispatches, Truthout essays, the 2019 book "End of Ice"
04:42 - Jamail provides his own bio: mountaineering, beginning of journalism career as correspondent in Iraq warzone, shift to reporting on science and effects of climate change. Now no longer doing journalism; adapting his work to post-doom.
07:28 - Dowd reiterates importance of Jamail's 2019 book on climate change and "It's rare that a journalist exposes his heart in the way that you do."
08:50 - Q&A on "post-doom" as a useful term, mixture of intense emotions
10:23 - Indigenous peoples have long been in the reckoning now facing dominant culture.
11:29 - Q&A - science distinction bt linear change v. abrupt climate tipping points
16:05 - Q&A - Personal story of perspective shift and emotional adjustment, especially when experiencing diverse impacts of climate shift while doing field journalism for his book in the company of scientists.
21:31 - Iraq War experience prompted questioning of "dominant culture" values and then learning of indigenous perspectives; "Wetiko" as term to identify dominant psychopathology.
23:28 - "We have set in motion forces such that we can't get this genie back into the bottle. Our own species may go extinct because of it. ... Yet, there is a moral obligation to continue to do the right thing no matter how bleak the outlook."
24:20 - Q&A - our cultural trajectory is like an addict who hasn't yet "hit bottom": "runaway Wetiko consuming all that's left on the planet and the injustices are going to continue."
27:00 - With conventional forms of hope having fallen away, Jamail reflects on who he is now and the actions he will choose to take, in light of indigenous guidance to serve the planet and to act for the benefit of future generations of all species.
29:34 - Q&A - reflections on human nature and ancestral ecological stewardship
32:54 - Q&A - science story of Earth less helpful now than indigenous ways
40:02 - Q&A - personal experiences and understanding of death
45:49 - Q&A - gifts of passing through mere acceptance to post-doom; Stan Rushworth as teacher and coauthor; analogy of the Titanic story; gifts of death
48:49 - Q&A - the future? Need realism about what is no longer possible, then ask "What is most important in my heart to do?"
Dahr Jamail as guest with Michael Dowd, host. Recorded in December 2019.
TITLE: "In Post-doom, Follow Your Heart" • Click "SHOW MORE" for timecoded list of topics:
00:43 - Three Previews
02:44 - Dowd opens with quick overview of Jamail's contributions: climate dispatches, Truthout essays, the 2019 book "End of Ice"
04:42 - Jamail provides his own bio: mountaineering, beginning of journalism career as correspondent in Iraq warzone, shift to reporting on science and effects of climate change. Now no longer doing journalism; adapting his work to post-doom.
07:28 - Dowd reiterates importance of Jamail's 2019 book on climate change and "It's rare that a journalist exposes his heart in the way that you do."
08:50 - Q&A on "post-doom" as a useful term, mixture of intense emotions
10:23 - Indigenous peoples have long been in the reckoning now facing dominant culture.
11:29 - Q&A - science distinction bt linear change v. abrupt climate tipping points
16:05 - Q&A - Personal story of perspective shift and emotional adjustment, especially when experiencing diverse impacts of climate shift while doing field journalism for his book in the company of scientists.
21:31 - Iraq War experience prompted questioning of "dominant culture" values and then learning of indigenous perspectives; "Wetiko" as term to identify dominant psychopathology.
23:28 - "We have set in motion forces such that we can't get this genie back into the bottle. Our own species may go extinct because of it. ... Yet, there is a moral obligation to continue to do the right thing no matter how bleak the outlook."
24:20 - Q&A - our cultural trajectory is like an addict who hasn't yet "hit bottom": "runaway Wetiko consuming all that's left on the planet and the injustices are going to continue."
27:00 - With conventional forms of hope having fallen away, Jamail reflects on who he is now and the actions he will choose to take, in light of indigenous guidance to serve the planet and to act for the benefit of future generations of all species.
29:34 - Q&A - reflections on human nature and ancestral ecological stewardship
32:54 - Q&A - science story of Earth less helpful now than indigenous ways
40:02 - Q&A - personal experiences and understanding of death
45:49 - Q&A - gifts of passing through mere acceptance to post-doom; Stan Rushworth as teacher and coauthor; analogy of the Titanic story; gifts of death
48:49 - Q&A - the future? Need realism about what is no longer possible, then ask "What is most important in my heart to do?"
