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We’re interested in how you’ve described global warming’s many impacts to yourselves, parents, and friends. But we’re most eager to learn what your children are feeling and expressing. They are our radical hope. Those of us who were glued to TV screens during the bombing the Pacific’s Bikini Islands have retained that haunting, weird, apocalyptic experience. The sheer magnitude of the mega-mushroom cloud imprinted feelings of awe and dread, death and foreboding. At the same... time, some of us were watching the Twilight Zone. Those stories freaked our imaginings while also causing wonder about time, scale, portals, and alternate points of view. Timothy Morton, philosopher of eco-crisis, describes global warming as a hyperobject- outsizing our sensate limits. Any words that help grok the dimensions of what is happening to our planet are urgently useful. The design of this issue of PUBLIC is precisely inspired by the expressive impossibility of gauging the wrecking of a single drop of water, the melting ice caps, the Pacific garbage patch, and all the water on our finite planet. With Trumpism, we have witnessed lies and sheer greed does to our national spirit. What is less palpable is the normalcy of algorithmic humdrum of daily carbon usage. That system causes the same damage as our spite-filled Bully but packaged in friendlier, seemingly greener terms. There is a lot to explore in PUBLIC’s hyperobject-inspired design with many interventions to hack and hack and hack the damaging normalcy pre-pandemic. There is no going back. We have to be differently, even as we may witness our politicians proceeding too cautiously to avert the ongoing, massive disruptions ever erupting. Read Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects and Creativity at public.imaginingamerica.org/radicalhope Jack Tchen, Guest Editor Kathleen Brandt, Issue Editor Brian Lonsway, Issue Editor @tim303 @public_journal_ia @priceinstitute #climatechange #globalwarming #radicalhope #hyperobject #jacktchen #kathleenbrandt @brianlonsway

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s bridging of ILK (Indigenous Local Knowledge) and Western science opens our fragile global futures wide open. This urgent bridging of old world deep understanding with the natural world will revive our lives, it will restore the spirit of what thrives, and it will tilt us back to what is important to study. ILK is now finally recognized as an intrinsic part of the immediate solution to grappling with global warming in the 2019 UN IPCC (International Panel... on Climate Change) report. This is the same report that says we only have t-minus ten years and counting. How can we square the time needed to restore traditional knowledges into right relations with scientific approaches, while mitigating the already converging impacts of the planet’s eroding atmosphere? The trustworthy path is clearly to work with those who are most intimate and practically engaged with the regional eco-systems we live in. Rectifying non-binary pronouns is important work. More fundamental, however, is rebirthing what Kimmerer proposes as ki and kin relations to the living planet we are in. She’s also a pleasure to read! And once the full issue is released in a couple of day, you’ll have links to more of her reframings. I trust the LaDuke/Kimmerer ticket! Kathleen Brandt, Issue Editor Brian Lonsway, Issue Editor Jack Tchen, Guest Editor @public_journal_ia @priceinstitute #robinwallkimmerer #climatechange #globalwarming #radicalhope #jacktchen #kathleenbrandt @brianlonsway

We continue our preview of the upcoming issue of PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining AmericaGlobal Warming and Radical Hope. In 2019, it seemed little news from the UK could get through the noise of Brexit on mainstream mediaand then a pink boat showed up. A pink boat appeared in Oxford Circus, central London, courtesy of Extinction Rebellion (XR).... The boat was one of XR’s many acts of civil disobedience, staged to bring international attention to the climate crisis threatening mass extinction. After hours of sitting in central London, the boat was eventually unmoored from the XR activists glued and chained to it and stolen, in the words of XR, by police turned pirates. But the bridge-blocking die-ins, the red-costumed street performances, the literally naked naked truth protests continued and in September 2020, the pink boat appeared once again in front of British Parliament. XR works in the long traditions of street art and civil disobedience, but uniquely in the world of social media, extends their local disruptionsrebellions in their termsto a global audience, and keeps the word extinction in the world’s media. Willing to face arrest to bring their rebellions a degree of attention they would not otherwise receive, their media presence globally amplifies and scales the message of urgencythe need to stop and rebel against the processes that have made it so urgent. XR US is one of hundreds of groups around the world, and among the first to center the concerns of those who have the most at stake with our climate crisis. Read their demands at public.imaginingamerica.org/radicalhope Kathleen Brandt, Issue Editor Brian Lonsway, Issue Editor Jack Tchen, Guest Editor @extinctionrebellionus @public_journal_ia @priceinstitute #climatechange #globalwarming #radicalhope #jacktchen #kathleenbrandt @brianlonsway