Visualizing our Changing Climate with Probable Futures
Feb 28, 2024
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In this podcast, Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart of Probable Futures discuss tools for managing climate risks, emphasizing the need for a new perspective on adaptation. They explore the impacts of climate change on businesses in tourist areas like Florida and advocate for incorporating climate awareness into storytelling and decision-making processes.
Adaptation requires a paradigm shift in planning decisions for climate change resilience.
Probable Futures offers tools for identifying and managing adaptation risks through a five-step process.
Integrating climate considerations across sectors is vital for building resilience and adapting proactively.
Deep dives
Challenging Business Assumptions in Addressing Climate Crisis
To seriously address the climate crisis, engaging bold business ideas is crucial. The traditional lack of questioning climate science in the business community highlights the need for a paradigm shift. Climate instability necessitates new skills, tools, and values for adapting successfully.
Creating Tools for Climate Risk Management
Probable Futures founders, Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart, offer online tools to communicate changing climate impacts. These tools aid in understanding and managing climate risks through a comprehensive five-step process. They focus on location, duration, and integrating climate models to assess physical risks and vulnerabilities.
Enhancing Climate Literacy Across Industries
Probable Futures targets three key audiences: business, social sector, and entertainment. By providing digital climate literacy resources, the organization aims to enhance understanding and decision-making across various sectors. Thought leadership on adaptation and resiliency, combined with speaking engagements, further support climate education and readiness.
Empowering Individuals to Address Climate Change
Alison Smart suggests individuals integrate climate considerations into their current roles without necessarily shifting careers. Students are encouraged to question the climate relevance in their studies. Experts can enhance their work by gaining basic climate literacy, exemplified by engaging with online resources. Leaders are advised to involve young individuals in decision-making for fresh perspectives and enhanced climate awareness.
Partnering for Climate Education and Decision-Making
The Climate Rising podcast discussion with Probable Futures encapsulates vital insights for addressing climate change. By fostering partnerships and sharing knowledge, it highlights the importance of integrating climate considerations across sectors to build resilience and adapt proactively to changing environmental landscapes.
In this first episode of our series on adaptation, host Mike Toffel sits down with Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart of Probable Futures. They discuss how Probable Futures tools are educating decision makers to better understand how their organizations will experience climate change, and how adaptation and resilience requires a paradigm shift in planning decisions. They describe a five-step process managers can use to identify and manage adaptation risks posed by climate change.