Josephine Becker (she/they) is a climate justice organiser and PhD student focusing on degrowth, feminism, autonomy, prefigurative politics, and futurism. Online she is active as @treesnpeace and also as the co-host of the YIKES Podcast a space dedicated to climate justice, anti-oppression and social movements.
You’ve probably seen the memes popping up everywhere about a gigantic stuck ship and a tiny ineffectual digger. So much so, the image is now fast becoming a euphemism for everything from clothing retailers’ greenwashing bids to combat the climate crisis through a sustainable fashion line to ‘my inbox versus...
One question that keeps coming up, no matter what space or context I am in, is: “are you an optimist or a pessimist?” Well the answer really is … neither! And it’s this binary, and their perceived lack of interplay when it comes to discussing solutions to the climate crisis,...