March 29th 2021
WINTON HIGGINS ALBERT CAMUS THE PLAGUE AND LAUDATO SI
The story of LE CHAMBON and how not to be a bystander in the climate emergency.
PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORD and ANDY BRITT
Music by KAVISHA MAZZELLA with her new album EMPTY SKY
Winton Higgins is a distinguished writer, Secular Buddhist teacher and Holocaust scholar. He tells us the story of Le Chambon. In 1940 the writer Camus was sent there for his TB but while writing The Plague, he observed a conspiracy of goodness. The community was committed to saving the lives of many Jewish people and helping them escape to Switzerland.
As plague force global emissions in our time are temporarily lessened by flights,cruises and industry being locked down for the COVID 19 pandemic, many are re reading The Plague. Winton discusses the novel with Vivien in terms of what strength we can draw from it as we face the truth of the climate emergency in our generation.
He also looks at Laudato Si! by Pope Francis, to learn how not to displace our moral responsibility... How to be citizens rather than consumers.
Naomi Klein warned us in Shock Doctrine,that predatory money will turbo charge the recovery if we let it. Will damaging the biosphere continue to be seen as a necessary trade off as workers are engaged in emissions intensive projects? Will we continue to be bystanders ?
Kavisha Mazzella Music
This discussion is full of practical ideas although it is more philosophical than usual.
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Climate Action Collective
