Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast. I'm Emanuel Von Lee, executive editor of Emergence

Magazine. Each week we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story exploring the threads

connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Andrei Snier Magnuson is an Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of numerous works, including the sci-fi novel Love Star,

the Young Adult novel, The Casket of Time, the Film Dreamland, and his most recent book

on Time and Water. I sat down with Andre while recently in Iceland to speak with him about

his new book on a relationship to time in an age of ecological crisis. With Iceland having

lost its first large glacier, the Oakh Glacier,

this past summer, Andre discusses the ways in which geological time is beginning to move at the

speed of human time. In order to bring about a planetary paradigm shift, he says, we need new

ways to see and imagine ourselves into the future.

Andre, you've had quite a varied career as a writer, an environmental activist, and even running for

president of Iceland. Yes. And your work as a writer is just as varied, you know, from poetry and children's books to

science fiction and nonfiction. Yet, running through all of your work is the desire to take on

big issues. Consumerism, the hubris of technology, climate change, and recently you've been

writing about time, both in the

Casket of Time and Now in Your Most Recent book on Time and Water.

And the books are really very different.

Casket of Time being a fantastical young adult novel and Time and Water being a work of nonfiction that's deeply

personal and an exploration of the environmental crisis and yet time connects them and not just in

their titles what is it that has drawn you to write about time? Why is it so important to you?

The casket of time and on time and water, they are kind of siblings, creative siblings,

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