Breathing with the Climate Crisis

Johannes Kronenberg Lin Bautze, Ueli Hurter (author), Mark Schalken (Illustrator)

Breathing with the Climate Crisis offers a hopeful narrative about the climate crisis, a new, different perspective that could unleash the courage to act. Young people and farmers from the East, South, North and West asked at a world biodynamic conference, ‘How can we find our own breath? Do we need more facts? More head? More heart? Feeling? Poetry?’ They suggest that you begin with your own inquiry process, ask yourself your ‘burning questions’. Think further. Also, think with your head, heart and hands… Breathing arose from conversations between over 1200 young people and biodynamic farmers from all over the world in 2021 at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. They asked, “What actually is the climate crisis? Why is it happening?” Weighed down by potential despair, they felt breathless. Then the hope arose with the question, “How can we tell a new story, adopt a different perspective that could give us the courage to act? Find our own heartfelt question? Contents: Your earth; you human being: you as co-creator; from real life - every person is a farmer; wanting a global society; further reading.

Ueli Hurter is a biodynamic farmer from L’Aubier, Switzerland, and heads the Agriculture Section at the Goetheanum. Lin Bautze is project leader for Living Farms, working with climate change. Johannes Kronenberg works at the Goetheanum, working with young people sustainability and civil society organisations.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hawthorn Press (1 Aug. 2023)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912480876
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.07 x 0.51 x 17.15 cm