Thank you for taking the time to read my writing. I am grateful for your thoughts, challenges and questions. In October of 2020 I took a walk through my neighbourhood, mask on I passed by boarded-up storefronts and COVID-19 testing centres. As I walked I listened to CBC reporter Nahlad Ayed interview Todd Dufresne about his book The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropence. In this interview, Dufresne offered that the climate crisis presents the opportunity to reassess current structures and rebuild.  I thought of activist and author Naomi Klein, who similarly writes about the opportunity for a  radical restructuring –  re-framing the climate crisis as a catalyst for change. Klein calls for a response to the climate emergency: one which sees the dismantlement of capitalism, the embracement of decolonization and the...