
Look to Palliative Care to Address Climate Crisis: Ken Victor

Look to Palliative Care to Address Climate Crisis: Ken Victor
Ken Victor is an essayist and poet who hails from Chelsea, Quebec, Canada. He ‘opened a crack that let the darkness in’ when he convened a small circle of compatriots called the We’re F’d Club (WFC). His arguments are reminiscent of Meg Wheatley's, "It’s not hope we need, but clarity," and Cormac Russell's, "things aren’t getting worse, they’re getting clearer." Ken goes a little further and asks, "if we accept that humanity is terminal, what are we here to save?” Does hope, false hope, stop us in our tracks, when we could instead turn to palliative care practices as a guide to living well while there is still time?
This podcast was catalyzed by a reading of Ken's latest essay, The Opposite of Hope Isn't Hopelessness.
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