Walkie-Talkie #13 ‘Turning the Titanic Around’
- filipvk
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Dear friends,
Due to circumstances, it’s been a while since I last sent a Walkie-Talkie out into the world. But to make up for it, you’ll get a bit of extra time!
During this walk, which lasts about thirty minutes, I talk about the climate disaster summer in Europe and other parts of the world. I discuss the still (very) inadequate attention being paid to this increasing climate misery, and the abominable response from governments and political actors worldwide.
The political world in Europe and elsewhere has no other response to the increasing climate disasters but a correspondingly increasing level of desperate denial and silence. I explain a little about the reasons why those governments find it impossible to act otherwise from their perspective, which is determined to preserve the current economic system based on endless growth at all costs.
But I also discuss why the overly narrow focus on ‘climate’ and CO₂ continues to blind us: the convergence of ecological crises has to do with so much more than ‘merely’ the dramatic increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. What we call the ‘climate crisis’ is a symptom of a much larger crisis in our biosphere, which is why I prefer to talk about the ‘biosphere crisis’.
But that is also a source of hope: if we look at all these crises through a broader lens, a whole host of other possible approaches emerge that could already take us a long way down the right path to turning round the ‘Titanic’ that is our economic system: in particular, agriculture and our eating habits can play an extremely important key role in this. But there are many other possible paths that remain virtually unmentioned in the mainstream media at present, and I would like to explore these further in the future in another series of videos.
And I also explain why I continue to believe it is important to discuss metaphysics and worldview in these Walkie-Talkies and in the blog. Even when the world is on fire (or perhaps all the more so), we must explore how our current worldview has led us to this point, and how a different worldview can help us chart a new course and rediscover our individual sense of ‘agency’, because it is up to each and every one of us to take action in the transitions that lie ahead. On the Titanic, it’s all hands on deck if we want to turn that huge, cumbersome ship around. And one of the things that keeps us trapped in a form of collective passivity is precisely our world view.
Thank you for joining me on this walk, and until the next episode,
All the best,
Filip
