I talk about this with my kids all the time. Something I aspire to.
Agreed. Your answer ABOUT climate change doesn't need to include a brag about producing more oil and gas than ever.
He said it over and over again. Sickening.
Always looked forward to the Weekly Reader!
Same here in Michigan. I posted this earlier today. Didn't quite make it to 80 - 78 with a heat index of 80 - but it still feels like summer. bsky.app/profile/erik...
I wrote a review of The Culture of Stopping in Environmental Values if you'd like a quick summary. It was an interesting read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Welzer wrote: “And wouldn’t it – to pan back from my own case to society at large – be a much better and no doubt pleasanter way to respond to our ecological challenges if we accepted them as phenomena of finitude and finally developed stopping strategies...”
In his book the Culture of Stopping, Harald Welzer emphasized the need to redevelop civic institutions around stopping - whether its collectively mourning a death or the closing of a factory. It's important to recognize endings and celebrate what they meant to people. Even energy infrastructure!
Donated! Hoping you and your family are safe.
Is it something you can write a blog post about? I wrote a few posts on other institutions' blogs, etc. when my book came out. Connecting a theme in the book to a current event. Writing in TheConversation.com might also be an option.