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Inside the Mind of an "Ecoterrorist" / Christopher Ketcham

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Christopher Ketcham on his Harper's Magazine article, "The Machine Breaker: Inside the mind of an ‘ecoterrorist’." Then a Past Inside the Present with Sebastian Wuepper. Check out Christopher's article here: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/the-machine-breaker/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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The water You're welcome to be.

0:13.0

The water is with the

0:15.0

I'll put our power in the water.

0:18.0

Take attack.

0:20.0

You're welcome the old. This is hell.

0:37.0

with my power. This is hell.

0:44.0

With my apologies, I have a horrible cold today

0:49.0

because that's what happens when you visit family out of state for a holiday weekend.

0:54.7

The planets on fire and yes, this is hell.

1:01.2

But some people are actually trying to fight that fire with fire, if you will.

1:05.9

But if you are fighting a climate, climate changed, climate-fueled global worldwide fire, it's going to take a conflagration of similar

1:15.5

intensity and scale to make even the slightest dent in the engines of our

1:20.1

self-destruction. As they grind away at an increasingly vulnerable environment, chewing through what we once

1:26.8

knew as nature and spitting it out, our relationship with the natural world is threatened, if lost. As today's guest rights, psychologists have come

1:37.0

up with a term solestalgia, so like nostalgia, except sola-st, for the feeling that occurs with the disappearance of what's perceived as the normal, stable, healthy, natural world.

1:52.0

The Australian philosopher, Glenn Albrecht coined the term.

1:56.6

He identifies it as a suffering of the loss of solace, quote, a deep emotional response

2:02.3

to the desolation of a loved home environment.

2:06.0

What we all need seemingly now more than ever is comfort in this time of great distress, sadness, and disappointment,

2:16.6

evidenced by an epidemic of loneliness, depression, and record numbers of suicides.

2:22.8

But for many, those places we recognize we associate with comfort and solace

2:28.0

are changing into something unrecognizable or disappearing entirely.

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