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Inevitable
Episode 213: Alison Smart and Spencer Glendon, Probable Futures
Jun 13, 2022
Alison Smart and Spencer Glendon of Probable Futures discuss their climate journeys and the creation of their initiative. They emphasize the importance of understanding and preparing for climate change, visualizing its impact, and realizing the destabilization of our civilization. They highlight the universal applicability of their resource for climate change education and planning, the challenge of reconciling self-interest and the collective good, and framing the future as either a defensive catastrophe avoidance or an aspirational vision of abundance. They also discuss learning about the tools and building partnerships.
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- Probable Futures is an educational initiative that provides freely accessible digital platforms with data, maps, stories, and insights to help individuals, organizations, and governments worldwide comprehend the impacts of climate change.
- Probable Futures aims to democratize access to climate data and models, training individuals from various backgrounds to understand and effectively use climate data, fostering climate data literacy and promoting its integration into different sectors and communities.
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Probable Futures: An Initiative for Climate Change Understanding and Action
Probable Futures is an educational initiative that aims to provide useful tools for visualizing and understanding climate change. It offers freely accessible digital platforms with data, maps, stories, and insights to help individuals, organizations, and governments worldwide comprehend the impacts of climate change. By bringing together leaders from various fields, including culture, technology, business, and design, in collaboration with scientists from the Woodwell Climate Research Center, Probable Futures works towards creating a global utility that facilitates informed decision-making and planning at all levels. The initiative emphasizes the need to move beyond simplistic representations of the future and embraces the idea that climate change will present a range of probable outcomes. By providing user-friendly interfaces and visualizations, Probable Futures helps bridge the gap between scientific research and everyday understanding, fostering climate awareness and inspiring action across diverse industries and communities.
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