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Mother Earth Catastrophes

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People know global warming is coming but don't act because their direct immersion in the concrete life world (seeing sun, trees) contradicts abstract scientific reports.

2014: 1 talk 2025: 1 talk 2026: 1 talk
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026

As told 3

“What prevents us from taking seriously the prospect of ecological catastrophe, it's precisely this our direct immersion into our life world.”
“there is no good mother earth are you aware how many mega catastrophes happened on our earth before even humanity was here”
“there is no good Mother Earth... how many mega catastrophes happened on our earth before even humanity was here”

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Every retelling 3

People know global warming is coming but don't act because their direct immersion in the concrete life world (seeing sun, trees) contradicts abstract scientific reports., illustrating ecology-climate,direct immersion into our life world
Žižek jokes that there is no 'good mother earth' because many mega-catastrophes occurred before humanity, creating the coal and oil we use, proving nature is not a stable, benevolent background., illustrating deep ecology as arrogance
Žižek jokes that there is no good Mother Earth because mega-catastrophes (ice ages, etc.) happened before humanity, creating the resources (coal, oil) we rely on., illustrating Mother Earth myth,deep ecology as arrogance