S4E5: Easkey Britton – Blue Health: Water and Wellbeing
Description
The marvelous Easkey Britton joins Daithí for this episode. A pioneer of women’s big wave surfing, a Marine Social Scientist and author.
We have a brilliant and inspiring conversation about Easkey’s relationship with Water, and her academic work on the benefits to human health from spending time around bodies of water. Easkey offers a very compelling alternative to how we can appreciate and take better care of water, given the new challenges of ocean warming and changes to seasonal rainfall as a result of Climate Change.
Easkey also discusses her experience with the 'Deep Adaptation framework, a method for fostering mutual support and collaboration in the process of anticipating and experiencing societal disruption and even collapse.
The spoken word performance in this episode is provided by The Accidental Rapper.
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https://www.instagram.com/easkeysurf/
'Into the sea' Film about Easkey surfing in Iran: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5950068/