Intergenerational Responsibility and Composting Our W.E.I.R.D S**t

An exploration of “sitting with the shit”, as “Western Entitled Individualistic Reductionist and Delusional people,” encouraging an “opening up to the uncomfortable grief,” and a recognition that ‘composting’ is how we prepare the ground for something new. As Burgess describes “this is really a conversation about unlearning and learning in new ways,” and about how might we shift our orientation from “entitlement to more entitlements” to “responsibility to more responsibility,” in a way that is “centred in our entanglement with a living Earth.” Called to “absolutely reject colonial divisiveness, violence and the othering of some humans…to stand up for all life…and to see all life as sacred again,” we are offered a question to hold: “What if we could respond from a space of emotional sobriety, relational maturity, intellectual discernment, and intergenerational responsibility? What would we be doing? How would we be sending our time?”