Toast | into the climate emergency at home

Kyla Brettle shares her own unravelling - realising that climate change is underway and that pretending everything is normal is kind of absurd and unhelpful.

Over a series of five audio postcards in Season 1 of Endgame - Kyla shares the path she travelled through this mess -  looking into projections about global and ecological collapse - ways of seeing how this might play out locally, where she lives on Djaara Country in central Victoria, Australia -  and what living regeneratively might really mean - philosophically, ethically and in practice. In the final postcard Kyla dives into different understandings of ‘hope’ in the current climate - and ways to navigate an uncertain future.

Ocean of plastic

A ‘moment’ in a supermarket isle before a magpie and a carpet of flowers float bye... on the daily grind of living with cognitive dissonance and small things that become big. [3’58”]

The rules have changed

On the fate of her toothbrush, how Eboneza Scrooge was treated unfairly in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and reading Jem Bendall’s essay, ‘Deep Adaptation’. [6:30]

A welcome to Country

A Thursday night in 2019 finds Kyla Brettle at a community information session about the Climate Emergency. Speakers Uncle Rick Nelson and Warwick Smith put ‘change’ in a local perspective [14’41”]

Before the rush

On collapsing after Christmas and the pile of books by her bed - reading up and trying to get to the nub of what it means to live in a sustainable way. [11’25”]

Hope and coffee

What hopes do we hold for a climate changed world - and can hope be trusted to guide our way? Kyla Brettle turns on the coffee machine, opens the books and tackles this tricky question in this audio essay. [6’13”]

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