Christiana Figueres, an environmental leader and advocate for spiritual evolution, discusses the ecological crisis, the need for a belief system that embraces realities, finding healing through Buddhism, the potential of renewable energy, radical regeneration, embracing pain for intentional action, building spiritual infrastructure, and nurturing the best of humanity.
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The Golden Toad
Christiana Figueres's interest in climate change began with the extinction of the golden toad.
This loss sparked her lifelong dedication to addressing climate change, driven by her role as a mother.
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Personal and Civilizational Crisis
The ecological crisis is both deeply personal and affects us at a civilizational level.
Human responses to this crisis often manifest as fear, denial, paralysis, or normalization.
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Spiritual Evolution
Addressing climate change requires a spiritual evolution alongside technological fixes.
This involves shifting from extracting from or living with nature to living as nature.
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The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as anyone alive on the planet now, Christiana Figueres has felt the overwhelm of this and stepped into service. She gives voice so eloquently to the grief that we feel and must allow to bind us to each other — and what she sees as a spiritual evolution the natural world is calling us to.
If you have wondered how to keep hope alive amidst a thousand reasons to despair, if you are ready to take your despair as fuel — intrigued by the idea of stepping into love and immediate realities of abundance and regeneration — this conversation is for you.
Christiana Figueres was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010-2016, and is known as the powerhouse who made the 2015 Paris Agreement possible — in which 195 nations worked with their wildly diverse conditions and points of view on the what and the when and the why, and yet made commitments in service of our hurting planet and the future of humanity. Her book, written together with Tom Rivett-Carnac, is The Future We Choose. She is founding partner of the organization Global Optimism and co-hosts the podcast Outrage + Optimism.
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