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Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)"Maybe I'm NOT a Doomer?" with Isabelle DruryIn this episode of Homeward Bound, I’m talking to Isabelle Drury, author of the Substack Finding Sanity. I wanted to talk to Isabelle because of a post she wrote back in July, describing a moment in her relationship, shaped by the way she had been dwelling on thoughts of climate catastrophe and societal collapse:I was discussing with my partner what our plans were for the next few years of our lives. What I imagine are the usual conversations one has when your future still seems wide open: ‘Shall we have a baby?! Shall we m...2024-11-1548 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E6: 'Small yourself up!' Dougald references a long essay by David Cayley, ‘Gaia and the path of the Earth’ and Bruno Latour’s book, Facing Gaia, contradictions ‘must be endured and sustained, not resolved or overcome’ and Vanessa Andreotti on ‘layering’ Ed talks about his first paddle upstream from the Mill and introduces this week’s instruction: ‘Small yourself up’?! via Jamaican buses and Antarctica. Dougald talks about the privilege of taking up space, whether that’s man-spreading on the tube or being quick to jump in and say whatever...2021-05-1347 min