166. No Mud, No Lotuses: The Last Episode of Season 5
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
So here we are!
30 episodes later we have finally arrived at the end of Season 5 of the Outrage + Optimism podcast. And what a rollercoaster it has been for all of us in the global climate community since the start of the year! We are due to take a well-earned break over August before we return with gusto in September for Season 6 - but before we go - in this dynamic episode, we take you on a whistlestop tour of the last six months of the podcast, narrated with a present day lens from our hosts, Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson.
We hope you will enjoy revisiting the wisdom and inspiration our guests and hosts offered up over the last six months. Even though it has often felt we are in dark times, we invite you to draw from these episodes the gritty determination to believe that we have what it takes to move the trajectory we are currently on to a safer, more resilient and just world. To paraphrase the teaching of Thich Naht Hahn that Christiana recalls in her interview with Plum Village: “No mud, no lotuses’.
And in true Outrage and Optimism fashion, playing us out is the talented Australian TV weather presenter and musician, Jessica Braithwaite. Jessica contacted the team recently to share her positive feedback and offer us the use of her single ‘Hello (You Got My Heart)’ to play out the final episode of this season. We jumped at the chance and invited her to reflect on what it means to working as a musician (and weather presenter) in an ecological crisis. We loved her answers - be sure to check out more of her music!
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| 0:00.0 | OK, well I hope you're ready, buckle up, because this is going to be a ride. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to our Asian Optimism, I'm Tom Riviccarnock. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Cristiana Piedes. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:22.0 | Today we bring you the final episode of season 5 where we look back at the season that's |
| 0:27.2 | gone the amazing episodes and the incredible guests we've had and we provide some hints |
| 0:31.8 | to what's coming in the fall for season 6. |
| 0:34.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:50.2 | So today marks the completion of another series of outrage optimism. |
| 0:54.2 | We're today concluding season 5 which has been a remarkable privilege and such fun to put this together |
| 1:00.2 | with both of you, Paul and Cristiana and our great team including Clay and Sarah and others over the last few months. |
| 1:05.2 | And in particular we'd like to thank you, our listeners, which is really what makes this podcast possible |
| 1:11.2 | and also of course our sponsors, which is what also makes the podcast possible. |
| 1:16.2 | But today we're going to close out by playing some clips of some of our favourite episodes. |
| 1:21.2 | But just before we do, this is actually rather a special day because if you've been following the news, |
| 1:26.2 | what you will have identified is that over the last few months we've been really hoping that the US would come forward |
| 1:32.2 | with something meaningful in terms of legislation. |
| 1:35.2 | And actually it looks now like it might well happen. |
| 1:38.2 | Sellers are mentioned and Chuck Schumer came together to announce a package of legislation |
| 1:43.2 | that includes much of what we hoped would be possible on climate and it looks now like they're actually coming together to do that. |
| 1:49.2 | So that is a remarkable piece of news for us to end our season on. |
| 1:53.2 | You want to talk about optimism Tom, the biggest and most consequential climate change bill ever passed by the Congress |
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