Danielle Celermajer: Summertime: Reflections On A Vanishing Future

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When those fires happened it was about 8 o clock in the morning It goes completely black so the sky is completely black There s no light The sound is like being under a train It s unbelievably loud And of course the heat You are right in the heat of the fire and the smell and the taste So every one of his senses was taken from one world A world where it was light where he could move around to another world without the meta narrative that human beings have that we re in an age of climate catastrophe Danielle Celermajer Danielle Celermajer a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Sydney She s deputy director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project Her research focus is on Multispecies Justice or how the concepts practices and institutionalization of justice needs to be transformed to take into account ecological realities and the ethical standing of all earth beings Danielle lives on a multi-species community in rural Australia She lived through Australia s Black Summer fires in 2019 2020 and wrote a book about them called Summertime Reflections on a Vanishing Future It s a book that should be required reading for the entire world Please listen share and read Summertime Reflections on a Vanishing Future To learn more go to speciesunite com Click here to visit this podcast episode