Rebuilding Resilience: The Urgency of Environmental Healing

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This chapter emphasizes the urgent need to address environmental damage and rebuild resilience in the face of climate crises, particularly focusing on the influx of climate refugees in Iowa. It advocates for regenerative practices to heal industrial damage, highlighting personal experiences of severe weather events and the importance of local sustainability efforts. The chapter underscores the power of storytelling as a tool to inspire action and shift towards a more sustainable future.

In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and industrial expansion. In today’s real world, scientists are looking to geo-engineering and other human innovations to preserve the wellbeing of life on Earth. “What we’re missing is a way to galvanize people to support policies that are actually gonna change,” says Jeff Biggers, founder of The Climate Narrative Project.

So how can climate storytelling help us reckon with our changing environment? Do we need a new climate narrative to help us understand and solve the climate emergency?

Guests:

Jeff Biggers, Founder, The Climate Narrative Project

Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Author

Related Links:

Climate Narrative Project

Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition

The Ministry for the Future

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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