Imagining and informing welcome differences to come.
Conversations with people who inspire and inform me, plus my own thoughts & original music.
There is a reason why they targeted housewives. The marketers who transformed Western society into the unsustainable model of insecure inequity we endure today did not aim their cannon of influence on those whose income paid for all these things we have come to feel are necessary. In shaping that quick and profoundly social revolution, marketers focused on homemakers. Because revolutions that profoundly change our values & our expectations can only be rooted in the home front. A space no longer reached through ads aimed at isolated housewives. A space now held in our hearts & habits. That's where I'm looking now for a revolution of kindness and inclusion.
These forty episodes document the growth of my understanding of the solutions to our climate crisis here in Thunder Bay.
I began by assuming it boiled down to leadership and technology with a soupcon of public education. Serve up these three heroic ingredients right and our path to destruction would be solved - much like the acid rain crisis, or water pollution.
But instead I have come to understand that this crisis is not so easily solved. It requires a substantive shift towards deep inclusivity of all the systems of life of which we are a part. From within our entrenched habits of hierarchical inequity, valuing of insecurity & blindness to the world beyond our human circles, this will not happen without significant effort. But it is not a heroic effort. Think of every habit you've managed to shake - that's the kind of work required. It is personal, humbling, domestic and most of all - it is kind.
It is a heart-stretch. Success can't afford the simple comfort of enemies - there are no bad people or evil elements of life, only bad decisions and loss of life. Yet quiet persistence and personal growth is as powerful as the force of water grinding stone to sand and prairies into canyons. This is what I have come to understand so far.
Listen from first to last to trace my journey of deepening hope for this place now called Northwestern Ontario, beloved home of the Anishnawbe and Cree since time began, signatories of the Robinson Superior treaty of 1850. Or leap-frog straight to the episode that calls you. Thank you for listening. I am honoured.
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