Regent Theatre with Tim Hollo, AYCC Krysta & DirtGirl:
Systems Change for Planetary Survival.
Notes from the event (Brian).
Tim
– “Abandon hope that the current system can save us.”
– “… it must be the end of the world as we know it.”
– The cycle of everything is growth, conservation of form, collapse, reorganisation.”
– “From the science of evolution, the pattern of punctuated equilibrium could be a reference for us regarding political and system change.”
– “Collapse is a transformation, a punctuation of equilibrium.”
– “What comes after the collapse is what is growing below the system just before the collapse, and that shall be what emerges as the new system.”
– “‘Transformative incrementalism,’ small community or home change, is underrated.”
– “The things which we do, they may seem small and ineffectual, but when the collapse happens, they are new system which will emerge.”
– “Withdraw consent to encourage the punctuation of the equilibrium.
Dirt Girl
– “Stop using the word hope, and use the word courage.”
– “Hope is thrown around as a solution for ecological anxiety.”
– “Be gentle with ourselves, allow ourselves to be ourselves.”
– “Be often in nature.”
– We were raised to live in a community, not an economy.”
Krysta AYCC
– “The objective of the is ‘a Climate Justice, Uprising.”
****Note: the above quotations are as I, an audience member, understood them to be said as I was taking notes, I may be misrepresenting what was said, though perhaps not.****
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Facing Up is a series of trauma-informed conversations that focuses on the social, economic, cultural, political, emotional and spiritual consequences of the ecological crisis.
The Facing Up event series is running from March to November with a talk a month across different Northern Rivers venues. Each talk has a different set of speakers but for each the premise is the same: “… knowing what we know, how do we then go about our lives? “
Regent Theatre venue, 24th May, the Conversation begins at 6pm – 8.30pm, food from 5:30pm.
Tim Hollo is based in Canberra and runs The Green Institute, Tim worked for Christine Milne when she was a Senator and has also worked as a campaigner for Greenpeace.
