Climate Grief | Philosophy Tube

Not sure if Olly would agree, but I reckons 'Being Ecological' is a really good introduction to Morton's work (and a pretty healing read to boot!)

Adam Whybray

We loved your video, like always! <3

From my experience I've found XR on a local level is perhaps more open to critique (and the critiques here are on-point) than at the level of national leadership (though said leaders might dispute that the are leaders and position themselves more as founders and spokespeople). I also think that the essays in 'This is Not a Drill' the Extinction Rebellion handbook by Mohammed Nasheed, Kamla and Bhuvan Chan Joshi and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim are all serious good faith inclusions. While it may seem perverse to wish for any more white men in XR than there currently are, the issues you identify (esp w/r to the police) give me yet another reason to be sad Mark Fisher is no longer with us. With his participation in citizens' assemblies I have no doubt he would have been very involved in XR (especially here in Essex and Suffolk where I live) and would have done a good job at reminding Hallam, Bradbrook and Read (despite their various and different merits and strengths) that climate change is always already political and cannot be easily divorced from ideology in the name of a humanism that ends up being less inclusive in practice than in theory. Which is not to say I don't support XR and won't continue to be very actively involved! Perfection politics can stop political action and I'd much rather be involved with something flawed but active than perfect but completely passive. But it's important for us in XR to remember that we're not reinventing the wheel and that a lot of the things we're saying have been said by other activist groups in the past and the fact that the police go light on us can't be wholly divorced from what some label "identity politics" don't think.

Adam Whybray

I thought the video had some really good ideas, using the stages of grief was a really good timing idea. My only issue was that my last name was mispelled in the end, which I'm not angry about I just wanted to point it out.

This felt like you had bits and pieces but did not quite know how to put them together. The costume was nice, but I felt there was not really a point to it beyond having a costume. The figure was... who? Was it the scientist after the end? I have know idea. The wildlife documentary bits were jarring, but then again maybe I was not the audience for that bit as the whole idea of Nature of not being distincit from myself was not new to me. Maybe that played better with people to whom that was a new idea. And then the video was over quite abruptly.

Jan Meyer

Loved it. So important. And perfectly timed!

Gabe

The Arsonist is absolutely iconic already. Like the Randall Flagg of the Ollyverse. I get chills when I see him. I'd love to see the Fireman similarly developed!

Glyph

Well timed video! We're down to one Koch brother as of today

Lomky

1. Love love love the video 2. Can ANYBODY tell me what the song at 2:00 is, it's been driving me mad?

Patrick Carter

Don't play The Arsonist's scene if your doggos are around, they'll bark all night!

❤️ LOVE this episode 🙏🙏🙏 that said please bring back the Fireman! The Arsonist is a fabulous character who gets even better every time you write for / emody him… and, you play The Bad Guy very well. So the Arsonist needs a terrific foil and IMO the Fireman is the man for the job, rather than this priest. Bring back the Fireman!!

Every upload more high quality than the last. Holy shit YOU are amazing

Bardia

Fantastic work! Lots of new information, but even more new questions to ask. It makes me wonder about the philosophy of grief and despair more generally; the climate doesn't care about how we feel, only what we do, so presumably there's no point in feeling despair about it. But if we don't feel that anything is wrong, how will we get motivated to do anything? How does one thread the passage between the Scylla of syncretistic, scientistic optimism and the Charybdis of paralyzing despair? And in the face of terrifying information can one choose how one feels?

Glyph

Amazing. And I'm loving the references for sources and books you've got going on in the description. I'm definitely checking out "Why Marx Was Right", that sounds like an interesting one. Ditto hyperobjects.

Dagmar Makara