Danielle Celermajer: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Species,
0:05.0	species.
0:09.0	species.
0:10.0	unite. Unite.
0:11.0	When those fires happen about 8 o'clock in the morning it goes completely black so
0:20.0	the sky is completely black, there's no light, the sound is like being under a train.
0:27.3	It's unbelievably loud.
0:30.9	And of course the heat, you know, you are right in the heat of the fire and the smell and the taste.
0:38.0	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 were in an age of climate catastrophe. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's
1:09.7	episode and you have a spare minute. Could you please rate and review Species Unite on Apple Podcast
1:17.0	or wherever you listen to Podcasts.
1:19.0	It really helps people to find the show. This conversation is with Danielle Salomere.
1:31.0	Danielle is a professor at the University of Sydney and she's deputy director of the
1:35.9	Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the multi-species justice project.
1:40.8	She has been a long-time activist, but in the last decade has expanded to all
1:46.0	species. She lives on a multi-species community in rural Australia. She lived through the Black Summer Fires in Australia in 2019 and
1:55.8	2020 and she wrote a book about it called Summertime Reflections on a Vanishing
2:00.9	Future. I asked her to begin our conversation by reading an excerpt from it. And then.
2:13.0	And then.
2:15.0	And the mmm. And the mmm.
2:17.0	And the mmm.
2:18.0	And the mmm.
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