Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Presenting: 'Uncertainty and Possibility - Meeting the Climate Future'

Oct 12, 2023

This podcast features Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax and writer/activist Rebecca Solnit discussing topics such as personal reflections on climate grief, rewriting the narrative of the Anthropocene, confronting loss and taking action, the blame game in the climate crisis, overcoming challenges and fighting for a future, shaping the future amidst feelings of doom, organizing and engaging with uncertainty, the true nature of people in disasters, the power of compassion, the power of storytelling, and the two exponential curves shaping the future of our climate.

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Rebecca Solnit

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Quick takeaways

Urgent action is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, highlighting the injustice of climate change for vulnerable communities and future generations.

Embracing uncertainty and change is crucial in addressing climate change, shifting from a victim narrative to finding possibilities and practicing mindfulness and spirituality to foster resilience.

Compassion and storytelling play a transformative role in addressing climate change, emphasizing the shift from an individualistic mindset to one rooted in care, connection, and community.

Deep dives

The Urgency of Climate Change and the Need for Action

The podcast episode addresses the urgency of the climate crisis and the need for immediate action. It emphasizes the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and highlights the need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The episode discusses how this requires a significant decline in global emissions by 2030 and highlights the injustice of climate change, particularly for vulnerable communities and future generations. It also explores the role of technology in addressing climate change, such as the exponential growth of renewable energy and the importance of shifting to a more positive and constructive mindset towards climate action.

Introduction

3min

Witnessing Extinction and Parenting

4min

Confronting Loss and Taking Action

16min

The Blame Game and the Fragmentation of Humanity in the Climate Crisis

2min

Transforming the Victim Narrative

7min

Overcoming Challenges and Fighting for a Future

2min

Pre-Traumatic Syndrome and Shaping the Future

2min

Organizing and Engaging with Uncertainty

19min

The True Nature of People in Disasters

8min

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The Two Exponential Curves

5min

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The Power of Compassion

11min

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The Power of Storytelling

19min

What happens when three wise women get together? Just an incredible series of new, mind-blowing conversations, that’s all.

In this week’s episode we are THRILLED to bring you an edited version of the AMAZING ten-part video series Uncertainty and Possibility -Meeting the Climate Future featuring Buddhist teacher, Roshi Joan Halifax; writer/activist Rebecca Solnit and of course, our own remarkable Christiana Figueres.

Recorded by our friends at Upaya Zen Centre earlier this year while the three women were together in person, please do be sure to check out the full series in its entirety!

During the course of these discussions, Roshi Joan, Rebecca and Christiana go deep on topics ranging from personal reflections on climate grief, to how to be present to the current climate reality, to how we can rewrite the current narrative of the anthropocene. We guarantee you will leave this conversations with a deepened understanding of the transformation, both personal and systemic, required to meet the challenges of the climate crisis.

Huge thanks goes to the team at Upaya who recorded these interviews and kindly allowed us use of their audio, and to Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit and Christiana for the rich conversation.

If the episode leaves you wanting to hear more from these wonderful women, you can download the previous Outrage + Optimisms episodes where Roshi Joan Halifax

and Rebecca Solnit feature as guests.

Please remember to send in your questions for the Listener mailbag episode we are doing at the end of October. Either submit through our social media channels or email: contact@globaloptimism.com

NOTES AND RESOURCES

Upaya Zen Centre

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Ten-part Video Series

Video Series: Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future - Upaya Zen Center

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Roshi Joan Halifax

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Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca’s organisation Not Too Late co-founded with Thelma Young Lutunatabua.

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