Iwod sitat: We could get a climate pledge right from the te companies. What we need is a coalition of instead of the hundred and 95 countries, basically 15 or so major tech companies go from being a thing that kind of dismantled democracy all round the world to redeeming yourselves. I think our invitation is it's time to move up to the adult weights. You know, you are in a position to save us if we can get a pledge from all the companies.
[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.