How do we act when we don’t know if we’ll win? – Interview with writer Paul Loeb
Alexandria Shaner spoke with Paul Loeb about hope, organizing, and building power in dark times.
Alexandria Shaner spoke with Paul Loeb about hope, organizing, and building power in dark times.
In a catastrophe, the most important thing is social relations. Anything that builds resilient social relations is a step towards having agency in a catastrophe.
Honestly, it was very difficult to create a climate movement in Germany. We worked for five years with hardly any attention. Then the Paris summit happened, and we exploded.
Industrial landscapes are living reminders of how centuries of fossil-fuel development reshaped Earth’s systems. As the Anthropocene unfolds, that legacy continues to shape our future. Historian Sabine Höhler argues that bridging the divide between human and Earth history is essential to understanding where we are and at what cost.
Daniel Aldrich is a leading expert on how social ties shape disaster recovery, his perspective shaped by his family’s flight from Katrina and his work at USAID. In this interview, he explains why social capital is vital to strengthening communities in the face of crises.