Future Ecologies presents: The Right to Feel (Part 1 Climate Feelings)
Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.
This first episode, \u201cClimate Feelings,\u201d is a collection of students\u2019 non-fiction essays and reflections on their personal realities of living with and researching the climate crisis. The first episode opens with an introductory conversation between Naomi Klein and series producer Judee Burr that contextualizes how this class was structured and the writings it evoked.
Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.
\u201cThe Right to Feel\u201d was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the S\u1e35wx\u0331w\xfa7mesh (Squamish), x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam), and S\u0259l\u0313\xedlw\u0259ta\u0294 (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel
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Part 1: Climate Feelings
2:38 \u2014 Introduction by Judee Burr and Naomi Klein
19:05 \u2014 Connection to Jericho Willows by Ali Tafreshi
22:27 \u2014 Connection to the Water by Foster Salpeter
27:06 \u2014 Connection to Family and Land by Sara Savino
31:01 \u2014 Scientists and Feelings by Annika Ord
36:00 \u2014 Biking away from the Smoke by Ruth Moore
39:32 \u2014 Climate Sensitivity on the Bus by Nina Robertson
43:13 \u2014 Grief and Climate Change Economics by Felix Giroux
46:36 \u2014 The Age of Sanctuary by Melissa Plisic
52:04 \u2014 Age of Tehom by Maggie O\u2019Donnell