119. Dealing with Climate Grief with Luisa Neubauer
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
With only 99 months left until 2030, and COP26 in less than 1, time is ticking on 1.5. And young people know it.
So today, a timely and relevant conversation with Climate Activist, and return guest to Outrage + Optimism, Luisa Neubauer. This time, focusing on climate change and its impact on the mental health and outlook on the future of young people everywhere.
The backdrop to the conversation with Luisa are two recently published studies (One from The Lancet, another from Science.org) examining the psychological effect of climate induced anxiety and perceived government inaction on our youth, and their current and future lived experience of the impact of climate change.
We also consider causes for optimism at the other end of the spectrum as The Eartshot Prize has announced its finalists and is featuring a high profile TV series focusing on the regenerative and transformative projects from small community efforts to public policy driven national initiatives.
A just future is possible. What will we choose?
Hit play, join us for the conversation, and stick around for musical guest this week is the one and only Gizmo Varillas!
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Christiana + Tom’s book ‘The Future We Choose’ is available now!
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Mentioned links from the episode:
Earthshot The TV Series featuring Christiana Figueres is now available to view on Discovery+ and BBC iPlayer!
TEDCountdown Summit is next week!
Climate Grief and Anxiety Studies:
Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon
Intergenerational Inequities in Exposure to Climate Extremes
Check out the incredible activists Christiana and Paul met in Dubai:
HE Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany
permanent representative of the UAE to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
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The UAE Mission to IRENA
Nisreen Elsaim
Chair, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
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Heeta Lakhani
Global Focal Point, YOUNGO and Director, UmeUs United Pvt. Ltd.
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Children and Youth constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (YOUNGO)
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Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY16)
A recommendation from Clay:
Go listen to ‘The Flock’ - An epic audio drama about rising up against environmental destruction - From the view of birds!
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Thank you to our guest this week, Luisa Neubauer!
Luisa Neubauer
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And of course, her incredible TED Talk
Learn more about Fridays For Future
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Amazing music this week was from Gizmo Varillas!
Gizmo Varillas
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outragean Optimism. I'm Tom Ravicana. I'm Cristiana Fijeres. |
| 0:16.9 | This week we talk about the upcoming launch of the Earth Shop prize and the remarkable |
| 0:20.8 | projects that are going to be celebrated next week. We also talk about the huge psychological |
| 0:25.3 | impact that climate change is having on young people around the world. We speak to climate |
| 0:29.4 | activists Luisa Neubauer and we have music from Gizmo Verilis. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:46.0 | So Cristiana just you and me this week it feels awfully roomy without Paul in our midst which is |
| 0:50.5 | very sad but you just spent a few days with him which is very nice and we'll both be seeing him next |
| 0:54.4 | week because we've reached the period of the year in which we seem to be on the road almost |
| 0:58.4 | continuously for the next few weeks. I will be seeing you on Monday in Edinburgh for this remarkably |
| 1:04.8 | exciting Ted countdown event where we're going to be spending the whole of next week. This is true. |
| 1:09.5 | I have no idea how this whole traveling thing slipped in under our feet back into our calendars. |
| 1:17.8 | Not that I'm happy about it at all but you've left your little corner of paradise on the beach |
| 1:24.0 | Yes I definitely have. I definitely have but very exciting events coming up for sure. |
| 1:30.8 | So there's Ted countdown next week which is going to be four or five days of the most amazing |
| 1:34.7 | Ted talks including you having various interviews and you and I are hosting different sessions |
| 1:39.5 | and then at the end of the week and those sessions from Ted will be visible to everybody. |
| 1:44.9 | There'll be a big YouTube live event coming up and we'll keep you in the loop for that |
| 1:48.8 | and then at the end of next week is the launch of the earth shop price and that is going to be |
| 1:52.9 | in London and Alexandra Palis and Cristiano. You are on the judging panel for that. What can you |
| 1:57.0 | tell us about the earth shop price? Well I can't tell you who won. That's where you were pushing me. |
| 2:05.2 | I do know I do know but I can't tell but you know before that before October 17th which is when |
| 2:13.2 | the five winners will be announced I believe it is this Sunday that the BBC is actually releasing |
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