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Breaking Boundaries
2024 · Film · documentary · 76 min
Directed by Dina Burlis
Black Californian teenager, Nastasya Generalova, was raised by her single white Russian mother, Olga who enrolled Nastasya in rhythmic gymnastics when she was four years old as a way for her to connect to Olga's homeland. This film looks at Nastasya's personal journey of expression as the only black girl in Team USA, as well as her relationship with her mother in the stressful lead up to Tokyo Olympics qualification. The audience is invited into Nastasya's world to experience what it feels like to be the only black girl in the building.
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1. One thing to do is to reframe from not just climate change to thinking in terms of planetary boundaries. The stockholm resilience center goes into this: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html . There's even a netflix documentary out now called 'Breaking Boundaries' hosted by David Attenborough and all. I stress this because too many people think just in terms of climate and not also recognize biodiversity collapse, biogeochemical flows, etc. There may be opportunities in thinking about regions more from this standpoint too, a la Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics.
2. Realize there are social practices to help deal with some of these problems, not necessarily just technological fixes. Things like possibly working at a neighborhood scale to have more local circular flows, cohousing, etc.
3. Have some concern that a route of having a 'climate' plan may accidentally end up with more ghg emissions or miss the mark on environmental/social issues. Some things I've been thinking about lately have been the results of south korea's climate plan ( https://youtu.be/x0ckvo2Z5BU?t=4 ) and an argument that the green new deal is a moral hazard ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSae5F__yQc )
4. Think about niche construction, and what caused anthropogenic climate change - getting into the economic & social factors.
5. Consider that it's possible to do ecosystem restoration, as evangelized by groups like https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org , https://ecosystemguild.org , etc. There's also things under the umbrella of 'assisted migration' as climactic shifts happen.
6. Some of the more basic things like water might be of more interest than energy depending on where you are. There's all sorts of things to be talked about in terms of 'decentralizing water'. Again, goes in hand with understanding ecosystems.
While super inspirational, I've actually found myself rethinking what worrydream wrote in this piece. It's too focused on just climate - feeling a bit too inspired by Saul Griffith (who with the otherlab team's creating amazing things like http://energyliteracy.com ). Some like Joe Brewer have already touched on all this with 'The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth' - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-design-pathway-for-regenerating-earth/ (bias: I know the author, google the book), works from the Post-Carbon Institute, etc.