CACOR: The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear - Michael Dowd

I consider this 52-minute presentation delivered via Zoom on May 3, 2023 to the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) to be my most important and emotionally supportive video to-date. DESCRIPTION: No one needs convincing that we are living in an age of chaos and breakdowns. Even those without benefit of an ecological understanding of history feel the stress. How do we cope? How can we escape the seesaw of hope and fear? And, crucially, how can we be of support to others who are confused, angry, depressed, or filled with fear, blame, or guilt? Don’t miss the amazing Q&A session, one of the best of my life (see Youtube description box) Time-coded table of contents: 00:00 - Intro of speaker, Michael Dowd 01:24 - Slide program begins 01:40 - Description and overview 03:00 - Religious naturalism, compost theology credo 04:40 - Denial / adaptive inattention 05:57 - Catton and Berry quotes 06:47 - How “progress“ leads to collapse/eco