Environmental-Angst: Reimagining Our Future in a Changing World
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Many of us feel a quiet, hard-to-name unease about the future of the land, water, and wildlife around us. It isn’t fear of any one threat. It’s a sense that the future we expected is slipping away. That feeling is usually treated as something to get over, or as a mental health problem. This interactive talk asks a different question: what if it’s telling us something true?
Drawing on the philosopher Martin Heidegger and on the Crow Nation’s response to the loss of the buffalo, we’ll explore how staying with this “environmental-angst” together, rather than pushing it away, can open us to what matters and to new ways of living. This is a conversation, not a lecture: bring your questions, experiences, and doubts. No background needed.
Speaker: Alex Filliez
Alex is a Masters Student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. His focus is a public‑facing philosophy of science and technology, focusing on AI, education, labor, environment, and mental health.