Graphics by Chelsea Green
SOLD OUT
Saturday 18th February 3.30pm
One afternoon in the second year of the pandemic, Dougald Hine heard himself say, "It's time to stop talking about climate change." How could that be the case – especially for someone who, as co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, had spent much of his life talking to people about climate change? At Work in the Ruins is the book he wrote to answer that question. In the words of Gail Bradbrook, the book is "a must-read for all those activists feeling lost, desperate and perhaps subject to ‘press-on-itis’".
"Climate change asks us questions that climate science cannot answer," Dougald writes in the book. In this public conversation, Dougald and Gail will discuss what these questions are, how the context of the climate debate has changed since the emergence of XR and the other new climate movements in the autumn of 2018, why this might mean we need to find new language to talk about the trouble the world is in and how we find the work that's ours to do in the face of all that we know and all that we have good grounds to fear about what lies around and ahead of us.
Copies of the book will be on sale on the day and there will be a signing at the end of the event.
Praise for At Work in the Ruins:
"I’ve long felt Dougald Hine an elder to our environmental movements... For me, reading this book was like having a long and honest supper with an old friend around a warming fire. I finished it with a relieving sigh, feeling nourished, heart opened, humanity seen.” – Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of XR
"One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar world.” – Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement
“Let Dougald Hine’s masterful storytelling mark you; let his song of loss and longing, his call to fugitivity, dispossess you of your steady gait and poise. Perhaps then we, collectively infected, might together witness the incomprehensible.” – Bayo Akomolafe, founder of The Emergence Network
Tickets: Pay what you can - donation