Excerpt - Richard Seymour on Covid and civilisational crisis

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

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Richard Seymour joins PTO to talk about his recent articles on the supply chain and fuel crisis - both in the UK and abroad - and how they portend a future of climate related disruption. We also talked about the significant uptick in the UK's Covid-19 cases and death toll, and why the government scaled back public health regulations so dramatically. Become a £5 PTO patron to get access to this episode and all other episodes of PTO Extra: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

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0:00.0	We know that climate change was developed as a PR term by the fossil fuel industry. It was designed
0:07.4	specifically to mitigate the seriousness of the problem. Climate change sounds so neutral, so
0:15.8	general, yet the climate changes. It's always changed in the history of the planet. So we need to come up
0:21.6	with a much better terminology for a start, even if we're just talking about that problem.
0:26.3	More generally, of course, we face a comprehensive ecological disaster. I don't know what
0:32.3	usable, accessible mass terminology we could come up with, but I think at root, this is a civilizational
0:41.5	crisis insofar as civilization is fundamentally a metabolic transaction between the human species
0:50.1	and the planet and every other species on it.
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