John Halstead: Climate Activism, Privilege, & Post-Doom
Channel: Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast
Date: 2020-03-04

This is a segment of episode #234 of Last Born In The Wilderness “The Curse Of Hope: We Did Start The Fire w/ John Halstead.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWhalstead2

Read 'We Did Start the Fire: Climate Change and The Curse of Hope' and 'Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden’ at Gods & Radicals Press: http://bit.ly/2TaUCwQ / http://bit.ly/3alkM5T

In this segment of my interview with John Halstead — pagan writer, (former) activist, and author of 'Another End of the World is Possible — we discuss his most recent article ‘Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden’ in which he lays out his reasoning for leaving behind environmental and climate activism, towards what Bayo Akomolafe has called “post-activism.” John states “I’m turning my attention from the planet to the place where I live, from humanity to the beings—both human and other—who I share this place with. I am turning from my hopes and fears about the future to the needs of the present. I’m turning from all the big picture stuff to the small scale, from the global to the local, to what I can see and touch and feel.“ (http://bit.ly/3alkM5T)

John Halstead is the author of ‘Another End of the World is Possible,’ in which he explores what it would really mean for our relationship with the natural world if we were to admit that we are doomed. John is a native of the southern Laurentian bioregion and lives in Northwest Indiana, near Chicago. He is a co-founder of 350 Indiana-Calumet, which (until recently) worked to organize resistance to the fossil fuel industry in the Region. 

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