What if We Could Make a Cultural Shift?

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We tend to follow the money. How'd we get white supremacy? Well, it's a labor story. Patriarchy is about domination and control. What distorts and hobbles our democracy? Follow the money. Oftentimes when people talk about culture, we're thinking art, language, food, spirituality,. Anything but money or economics. But culture is about values, the stuff we hold dear. Western societies have built a culture that cares tremendously about money in exploring the climate crisis. The trouble is, as dirk phillipson points out, this economic model is the hero in American politics.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make — in the West, and the U.S. in particular — to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other? Episode 11 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Researched and produced by John Biewen, with co-host Amy Westervelt. Script editor, Cheryl Devall. Interviews with Dirk Philipsen, Christian Felber, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, and Jessica Hernandez. Music by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, Fabian Almazan, and Alex Weston. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.