Summary:
Presented for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Nearly Carbon Neutral Humanities on the Brink: Energy, Environment, Emergency, UC Santa Barbara, 2020
Climate Justice Now: Transforming the Anthropocene into The Ecozoic Era asks: How can citizen-activists actualize symbiotic solutions as we transition from our petroleum-pharmaceutical-addicted cyber-culture to an economics of solidarity? How can we joyfully inspire, educate, and mobilize collective action among peoples of diverse backgrounds? Through an urgent commitment to creative-waste collaborations, we can transform corporate-capitalism’s everyday violence—consumption and entitlement—creating a bridge between infrastructural change and individual responsibility that gleans from indigenous wisdom and earth-based perspectives.
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