44. Caring in the Times of Corona
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As the news rolls in everyday from COVID-19, we take a pause to reflect on this past week. The sudden change in human behavior, how governments have done massive interventions to protect citizens, the ambition and action of businesses to slow contamination, and lastly, how humans have rediscovered humanity in caring for one another. Christiana brings a list of amazing things happening in the the midst of the pandemic, and Tom shares a bit about how a revelation during his time as a Buddhist Monk could change the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:19.0 | This week, like everyone else in the world, |
| 0:22.0 | we talk about what's happening with the coronavirus and what's likely to happen next. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:27.0 | So we've been trying to think about what's most useful for you, our listeners, in this |
| 0:38.5 | most unusual of moments. All of you will be experiencing perhaps quite severe limitations on your lives. |
| 0:46.0 | Likely you're confined to your homes for much of the day children may not be in schools, |
| 0:50.0 | offices, shops, and restaurants are closed. |
| 0:53.0 | And the speed of that change has been remarkable. |
| 0:56.0 | Just two weeks ago, we were traveling the world, |
| 1:00.0 | speaking to audiences of hundreds who didn't think twice about congregating together, and now that |
| 1:05.2 | would be unthinkable irresponsible. |
| 1:08.3 | So far, most people's direct experience of the coronavirus COVID-19 is through news reports rather than direct |
| 1:15.9 | experience of the disease and this means that we're spending a lot of time thinking |
| 1:20.8 | about what might be to come and that can bring anxiety and fear for many people. |
| 1:27.2 | How we face that at this critical moment will determine how we respond to it. |
| 1:32.6 | We're all sitting in our houses with our loved ones perhaps or perhaps not |
| 1:36.0 | often thinking about our own mortality and maybe that of those in our community. |
| 1:40.8 | Society feels fragile right now and that's frightening and it's also an |
| 1:45.3 | opening for something new. So that's where we'd like to begin today's conversation. |
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