What Is It Going to Take?

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Corona virus has actually, i holed the rug from so much right? I mean, there is nothing that is standing to day the way that i was standing just a month ago. What we really need to do is flex our muscles to flatten the much bigger curve of climate change. We have companies like microso that are already donating more than a billion dollars to basically drawing down all the omissions of their company since their founding. Imagine we got the top ten te companies to match what microsopt is doing. You could have face books show climate policies that were effective in other places and let you copy and organize climate policies for your own cityRight now. Such such a pleasure

[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.