At
some point in the next year or so, we, as a society, may enter the endgame of
the Covid-19 pandemic. But, are we, in any way, prepared to deal with the
political and economic stresses that will continue to hound us long after? And,
how do we even begin to purge ourselves of the pandemic induced detritus that
clogs the arteries of our socio-psychological existence? Arturo Escobar, a
prominent political-ecologist and an old ally of the Radical Ecological
Democracy website, lays out a strategy - what he calls the five axes of transition
- needed to come out on the other side of this societal collapse with hope, and
to “give impetus to our deepest yearnings for other worlds and worlds
otherwise.”
Please take a look and join the discussion on REDWeb listserv or the website discussion forum. The author is copied here in case you would like to contact him directly.
Best,
Pallav