60. Courage to Face the Future: Timothy Beal on His New Book, "When Time is Short"

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality

In this episode, Forrest sits down with Timothy Beal to talk about his new book, When Time is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene. His work is unlike most books in the realm of environmental issues or earthcare, because it challenges readers to truly engage the possibility that irreversible climate damage to the planet is already upon us, and only going to get worse—and that those changes might even lead to the end of the human species. His book provokes readers to have the courage to acknowledge that possibility, and to ask: How ought we to live our lives now, in light of that possible future?
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Guest:
Timothy Beal - professor of religious studies, Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA Book: When Time is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene

Mentions:
Holocene, Anthropocene - geologic eras
palliative care
Genesis one; two
dominionism - history in the US
latin root of religion
Walter Brueggeman
Definition of doxological
Job - God talks to Job
reparations
Book: Braiding Sweetgrass
Mary Oliver quote: What will you do with your one, wild & precious life?
Keywords: Anthropocene, doomer, climate adaptation, climate despair, extinction, Dominionism, climate justice

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