Global Climate Change

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Would global access to all these materials and energy even solve the problems humanity is facing anyways? No, absolutely not. The current international negotiation framework is looking at it as the ultimate problem rather than seeing it as a symptom of a deeper crisis. We're going to see a fundamental redistribution and reshifting of global natural resources which will mean essentially something which is differences or at least a questioning over this notion of boundary,. This notion of sovereignty, this notion of human settlements. we obviously know that the current foundations are not going to hold but we don't know what's next.

On this episode, environmental peacemaker and mediator Olivia Lazard joins Nate to unpack the relationship between mineral deposits, conflict-vulnerable zones, and high biodiversity areas to create interlocking risks to geopolitical and climate stability. Much like Olivia’s research, this conversation covers a wide variety of topics and is jam-packed with information. Will we have to plunder the planet in order to save it? Will we be able to transition to a multi-polar world order somewhat peacefully? And what can we learn from mediators and peacemakers, like Olivia, as we move into a more materially constrained future - where the whole pie is smaller?

About Olivia Lazard:

Olivia is an environmental peacemaking and mediation practitioner as well as a researcher and a fellow at Carnegie Europe. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of climate, the transition ushered by climate change, and the risks of conflict and fragility associated with climate change and environmental collapse. She has over twelve years of experience in the peacemaking sector at field and policy levels. In her fieldwork, her focus was to understand how globalization and the international political economy shaped patterns of violence and vulnerability patterns as well as formed new types of conflict systems that our international governance architecture has difficulty tackling with agility.

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