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From Oregon State University, Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an artful talk about our attack on Nature, and hope of reviving love instead. Recorded in Vancouver. With readings from her work & original songs by Libby Roderick and Tempting Eve.
The title was "It's Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to the Future". The presentation was organized by Simon Fraser University, in their Continuing Studies in Science and Environment program.
Kathleen spends every summer on a remote island off the coast of Alaska. She's in touch with Nature there, and at home in Oregon. In this artful, moving speech, we get some readings from her work - examples of why her books are so popular.
Find out more about Kathleen Dean Moore at her blog at riverwalking.com
Her latest book, a collection of 1500 short essays about our obligation to the future, is called "Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril." The writers are among the most famous people in the world, all speaking for the rights of the next generation(s).
"Morality" sounds boring. This speech surprised and moved me. It will do the same for you.
NEW MUSIC
The program also premieres a new original song by Libby Roderick: "The Lifeboats Are Burning", and a song inspired by a Radio Ecoshock Show - "We Are" by the new band in Sydney Australia.
2 comments:
This is one of the most inspiring, beautiful, gut wrenching and affirming talks I've ever heard. Have listen 4 times already, tears each time...heartfelt, something us climate warriors need now more than ever before. Her words evoke renewal, and her articulate moral wordsongs heal the depressions and shift my gears wonderfully... And remind me that...we make the future...and our children deserve our most earnest efforts...
I will carry this with me and play it often...and pass it around to willing ears everywhere
Have sent this out to so many folks, all of whom were so moved...listened three times this weekend as I gardened and continue to absorb her wise and heartfelt words... Therapeutically energizing as tears flow again and again, a connection to deep truths rekindling with each breath she utters.