Name: Conversations about the Polycrisis
Start: 2024-11-13T20:00:00Z
End: 2024-11-13T22:00:00Z
Location: Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative

Conversations about the Polycrisis

Bruntsfield Area Net Zero Action Initiative

A series of community meetings to learn about and share ideas, thoughts and feelings about the crises in our modern industrial society.

Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative

<h3>Schedule</h3><p>This is the first of three events scheduled for November and December (all at 8.00pm–10.00pm):</p><p>13th November 2024<br>Jason Hickel, Sam Fankhauser: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJrBR0lg6s" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJrBR0lg6s" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">How to save the planet: Degrowth vs Green Growth</a></p><p>27th November 2024<br>Kate Raworth: <a href="https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/77-kate-raworth" title="https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/77-kate-raworth" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Doughnut v. the superorganism</a></p><p>11th December 2024<br>Topic TBD</p><p><br></p><h3>What’s a polycrisis?</h3><p>A polycrisis is where we currently find ourselves: a number of overlapping and interdependent crises that converge and amplify each other. There’s the climate emergency of course, but also huge losses in biodiversity, political polarisation, huge levels of financial inequality, pervasive pollution of the biosphere, limits to growth imposed by depleted energy and mineral reserves, fragility of the global financial system… the list goes on.</p><p><br></p><h3>Is there anything we can do?</h3><p>It’s hard to get one’s head around the complexity of the polycrisis and there is a temptation to just focus on day-to-day concerns without worrying too much about what might be heading our way in the future.</p><p>The first thing we can do is learn more about the predicament we find ourselves in. Without properly understanding the problems — and their systemic origin — it’s unlikely that we will know where to look for solutions. <strong><strong>Conversations about the polycrisis</strong></strong> is an opportunity to come together as a group so that we can build resilience to confront the unprecedented shocks that are impacting modern society. The proposed format is simple: we spend about an hour watching a video together and another hour sharing questions, reflections and feelings. The videos themselves will involve conversations between knowledgeable, passionate and articulate people.</p><p><br></p><h3>Topics and information about resources</h3><p>The topics we can sample are wide-ranging, including AI, art, biology, climate justice, colonialism, ecology, economics, finance, geology, history, music, systems change, physics, politics, psychology, regenerative agriculture, sociology. We will decide as a group how to navigate through this space.</p><p>We have a page with more information about relevant videos and podcasts: <a href="https://banzaiedinburgh.org.uk/exploring-the-polycrisis/" title="https://banzaiedinburgh.org.uk/exploring-the-polycrisis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Exploring the Polycrisis</a>.</p>

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