Less than 50% of people do exercise, stop smoking and eat a little healthier. That seems deeply unhopeful to me. And yet, well, hold on, asa hoan. Can you also give me data in between? How many people do two things? 30 %. That's not bad. I like this. To combine one of the least hopeful things i know, and then immediately follow it up with what i hope is going to be one of the most hopeful thing i know. Ok? So least hopeful that is when we as human beings are confronted with an ex essential risk as an individual. There is a jama study, a journal of american medical association,
[This episode originally aired May 21, 2020] Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change Christiana Figueres argues that the battle against global threats like climate change begins in our own heads. She became the United Nations’ top climate official, after she had watched the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit collapse “in blood, in screams, in tears.” In the wake of that debacle, Christiana began performing an act of emotional Aikido on herself, her team, and eventually delegates from 196 nations. She called it “stubborn optimism.” It requires a clear and alluring vision of a future that can supplant the dystopian and discouraging vision of what will happen if the world fails to act. It was stubborn optimism, she says, that convinced those nations to sign the first global climate framework, the Paris Agreement. In this episode, we explore how a similar shift in Silicon Valley’s vision could lead 3 billion people to take action for the planet.