Episode 48: Rex Weyler On The Double Bind Of The Pandemic
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Rex Weyler, Author, Co-founder Greenpeace International
About
Rex Weyler is a writer and ecologist. His books include Blood of the Land, a history of indigenous American nations, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Greenpeace: The Inside Story, a finalist for the BC Book Award and the Shaughnessy-Cohen Award for Political Writing; and The Jesus Sayings, a deconstruction of first century history, a finalist for the BC Book Award. In the 1970s, Weyler was a cofounder of Greenpeace International and editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He served on campaigns to preserve rivers and forests, and to stop whaling, sealing, and toxic dumping. He currently writes a monthly column on the Greenpeace International website.
Topics
- The double bind of the pandemic.
- How can we emerge with a far greater respect for nature?
- The one solution that most environmentalists refuse to tackle.
- Hope for the future of humanity and nature still reigns.
Extra Credit
Visit: Rex Weyler’s website
Essays from Rex Weyler
- Ecological Trauma and Common Addiction
- What can we do? A prescription for taking action
- How do systems get unstuck? Learning to face difficulty like a living system
- Does human scale matter? About overshoot
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