70: Conspiracy Theories Conceal a Burning World (w/Daniel Sherrell)
Daniel Sherrell is the author of an extraordinary memoir and prayer book, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, in which he recounts how, as a climate activist born in 1990, he has fought to manage, digest, and even celebrate the desperate tasks of the only age he’s known: the Anthropocene. The book is his homage to the resources that help him meditate on weaning ourselves from the dissociations of Twitter and doing the hard work of transforming climate grief into climate integrity.
In our feature interview this week, Matthew sits down with Daniel to discuss the real conspiracy of climate denialism, and how conspiracy theories provide relief to those who cannot contemplate our condition.
We start the show with Derek’s contemplation of Amitav Ghosh’s “The Great Derangement” and Julian’s notes on climate denialism dwarfing the disinformation we typically interrogate in the wellness world.
Show Notes
Warmth by Daniel Sherrell
Sherrell and Dorothy Fortenberry on Know Your Enemy
Why Grief can be Strength in a Warming World | Daniel Sherrell |
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene – Scranton
Laudato si’ (24 May 2015) | Francis
Tucker Carlson on Military Vaccine Mandate
Dr. Wilson (Debunk the Funk) on Mike Yeadon
Big Oil’s War on Science
UCSA Climate Skeptic Disinformation List
The Climate Disinformation Playbook
Desmog Database
Steven Koonin, the “Obama Scientist”
Daniel Sherrell’s Reading List
Ducks, Newburyport — Ellman
The Summer Book – Jannson
Ice by Anna Kavan
The Mushroom at the End of the World — Tsing
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett: review
The Passion According to GH — Lispector
The Plains: Text Classics, book by Gerald Murnane
