Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.
This first episode, “Climate Feelings,” is a collection of students’ non-fiction essays and reflections on their personal realities of living with and researching the climate crisis. The first episode opens with an introductory conversation between Naomi Klein and series producer Judee Burr that contextualizes how this class was structured and the writings it evoked.
Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.
“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel
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Part 1: Climate Feelings
2:38 — Introduction by Judee Burr and Naomi Klein
19:05 — Connection to Jericho Willows by Ali Tafreshi
22:27 — Connection to the Water by Foster Salpeter
27:06 — Connection to Family and Land by Sara Savino
31:01 — Scientists and Feelings by Annika Ord
36:00 — Biking away from the Smoke by Ruth Moore
39:32 — Climate Sensitivity on the Bus by Nina Robertson
43:13 — Grief and Climate Change Economics by Felix Giroux
46:36 — The Age of Sanctuary by Melissa Plisic
52:04 — Age of Tehom by Maggie O’Donnell