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Something very cool is happening back home: Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker has sparked a bold @IndependentNL series on the roots of the COVID crisis, what real change looks like, and what it all means for the future of #NFLD, and beyond. Here's what's going on.... #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Robin @rgwhitaker opens the series, “Thinking Outside the Crisis,” by encouraging us to notice “attempts to bring into being a new order—as well as counter-efforts to secure existing arrangements.” https://theindependent.ca/2020/04/17/thinking-outside-the-crisis-introducing-a-new-series/
Brett Favaro @LetsFishSmarter zeros in on what COVID reveals about the fragility of our fossil fuel based energy systems. Decarbonization, he shows, is an economic imperative as well as a necessity for climate safety and social justice. https://theindependent.ca/2020/04/17/thinking-outside-the-crisis-decarbonized-or-destitute/
Jon Parsons @jwpnfld considers how COVID has revealed injustice and inequality, stark realizations that are now triggering social unrest and repressive state responses—patterns to watch for in Canada. https://theindependent.ca/2020/04/23/%ef%bb%bfthinking-outside-the-crisis-the-pandemic-social-unrest/
Samantha Breslin @sdbreslin focuses on the politics of data collection, quality, and use, and how choices about what is tracked—and who does the tracking—shape our communities. https://theindependent.ca/2020/04/22/thinking-outside-the-crisis-imagining-communities-through-data%ef%bb%bf/
Then there’s Luke Ashworth @lucian_ashworth, taking a very long view. He argues that the COVID crisis has “shaken us out of our complacency by revealing the fragility of the status quo,” AKA the generalized #Anthropocene mess we’re in. https://theindependent.ca/2020/04/24/thinking-outside-the-crisis-a-tutorial-level-in-apocalypses/
Keep it coming, @rgwhitaker and @drewfoundland!
