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Our First Audiobook!

1/15/2021

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Now available as an audiobook: TO REACH THE SPRING, Nathaniel Popkin's "clarifying, bracing, and ultimately transformative" book on the climate crisis. Narrated by the author himself, it's a great listen. Here are the links for Audible and Amazon:

Audible 
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The book is also available on iTunes. Search by author or title.

#climatechange #climatecrisis #climatejustice #globalwarming
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Stand Up! for the Earth

1/12/2021

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"I know that I am complicit," says Nathaniel Popkin in the new episode of the podcast Stand Up! with Pete Dominick. "It's truly a weight on me."

He's talking, of course, of the responsibility all of us bear for the climate crisis, the subject of his book TO REACH THE SPRING. And he relates this long-term danger to our present experience with the pandemic.

Nathaniel's portion begins at 1:17:29. Some other snippets:
  • "The heating of the earth is going to create more pandemic diseases."
  • "You can see the ways in which the male ego gets in the way of making policy."
  • "I think it's possible for us to get it … that we're in this together."
  • "Ordering from Uber Eats a bag of fries - we're all complicit.… [Yet] most human beings are part of the capital system as victims."
  • "We have known, more than previous generations … in detail … that we are the killer here [of the Earth], also that we are the victim.… And yet we go on, sort of blindly."
  • "This is a book about thinking about how to think about this issue."

#climatecrisis #climatechange #globalwarming #COVID
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"We are at stake to one another"

1/5/2021

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In a just-published Q&A with Jared Jackson of The PEN Ten (PEN America's interview series), Nathaniel Popkin reveals some of the thinking behind his book To Reach the Spring: From Complicity to Consciousness in the Age of Eco-Crisis. Here's an excerpt:
[Q:] In the book, you highlight our complicity and potential for apathy, going on to write, “Not facing known and well-understood acts of destruction may be the moral failure of our time.” I turn one of your opening questions back to you. In face of the climate crisis, what is life worth?

[A:] Very clearly, we’ve allowed the market, the system of global capitalism, to establish the metrics for answering this question. But it doesn’t have to be that way, does it? And furthermore, what we take the question to mean—what is a human life worth?—can be challenged and changed. For all life and lives are connected. As biologists are increasingly coming to understand, beings spawn, grow, evolve, and adapt together in complicated webs of life and not—as we like to imagine—as discrete individuals. We are at stake to one another. Let us, then, reconfigure our approach to the question, “What is life worth?” For what do we mean by life?
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