This is a beautiful conversation about endings, among other things.
Dougald is / was a long term climate campaigner - working alongside scientists, often picking up the story where their work ends. He joins Ben to talk about his new book, the beautifully titled ‘At Work In The Ruins’.
Picking a path through the various crises of our times, the book is equal part invitation and provocation; it is not a source book of solutions to the climate emergency and beyond. Quite the opposite.
It’s an invitation to think and feel and respond into our changing world with a humility, curiosity and hope. It’s an invitation to work to end all that no longer serves us - in modernity and the lives we currently lead. And in all these endings we might find that something new and far more beautiful is born.
Enjoy.
Links
- The Work in the Ruins (May 2023)
- At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies – Dougald’s book
- Dougald’s website
- Dark Mountain manifesto
- Hospicing Modernity: Parting with Harmful Ways of Living, by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
- A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena & Mario Blaser
- Vandana Shiva
- Gustavo Esteva
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist
- Ani.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos, by Gordon White
- Cynefin Framework
- A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth, by Chris Smaje
- Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
- Tyson Yunkaporta
- Bayo Akomolafe
- Red Hand Files
- Robin Williams’ speech in Good Will Hunting
- A School Called Home
- Dougald’s writing on Substack