168. From Climate Week NYC: No Other Option But To Solve This
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In an event as rare as the triple Jovian eclipse on Jupiter, Christiana, Tom and Paul recorded this episode together! As in IRL together! Physically at the same table!
Having graduated from their humble beginnings which saw them huddled together around a mic in a San Francisco bathroom (not ‘toilet’ as the Brits call it, conjuring up all kinds of odd visions for our US audiences), they are now broadcasting to you listeners from Tom’s ‘cozy’ New York hotel room, bringing us all the news and highlights from the first half of Climate Week NYC.
Christiana shares that alongside all the useful conversations that will be happening this week as the community grapples with solutions to tackling the climate crisis, the need for a gut belief that we CAN solve this crisis is critical. A belief she is sensing is worryingly absent…
Tom’s prediction for the next mega trend in the climate movement and philanthropy is in the form of strategic communications and political economy building.
Paul meanwhile is inspired by the role cities can play in implementing much needed governance and policy without the obstacles that are present in high level government.
While our special guest this week, the Financial Times columnist, Martin Wolf might not self-identify as an optimist, his conversation with Christiana, Tom and Paul offers a fascinating analysis of the economic, corporate and political forces that we find ourselves at the mercy of, the reasons behind the rise of populism and what he thinks it will take for us to really collectively wake up to this crisis.
And of course another incredible song from our new friend, Tommy WÁ. Stick around to the end to hear an exclusive performance from him!
Notes and Resources
Thank you to our phone guest this week, Martin Wolf!
Martin Wolf | Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times
Be sure to check out Martin’s Column in The Financial Times
-
Thank you to our musical guest this week, Tommy WÁ!
Tommy WÁ
Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | LinkTree | YouTube
Check out Tommy’s Live from NYC 3 Song Concert on YouTube
-
The EarthShot Prize Innovation Summit 2022 was a major highlight this week. Christiana moderated!
-
Your inside scoop to Climate Week NYC - @OutrageOptimism
Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to our Region Optimism. I'm Tom Rificarnak. I'm Cristiana Fighedis. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. This week we are all together in New York City for climate week. |
| 0:20.0 | We're bringing you some updates on what we're hearing on the street. |
| 0:24.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, so it's so nice to be together. We get to do this so rarely. Listeners may not be aware that 99% of the time we're in different places. |
| 0:42.0 | 99.9%. |
| 0:44.0 | 99.9%. Some of the different continents. But right now we are squeezed all round a tiny table in my hotel room in Midtown. |
| 0:48.0 | As we were in the, I'm not going to say to one, at the restroom in San Francisco. |
| 0:52.0 | Paul has a habit of saying we record our first episode in a toilet. |
| 0:54.0 | In a toilet. For United States listeners that means in a bathroom. |
| 0:58.0 | But anyway, it's nice to be with you both. And we thought this week we're just shared with the listeners some of the things we're hearing. |
| 1:04.0 | Here in New York, it's been the first climate week for a few years that I've been to anyway. |
| 1:08.0 | What are you both picking up in terms of what's animating the world of people concerned about the climate crisis? |
| 1:14.0 | So can I say something that is from last week? |
| 1:16.0 | Okay, go for it. |
| 1:18.0 | Because now that I'm sitting next to Paul again like last week, I was sitting next to Paul in his flight in London. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh yes, he has just removed his little notes and turned them around so that I can't see them. |
| 1:32.0 | Because last week I was sitting shoulder to shoulder with Paul. And he always does this absolutely detailed in depth. |
| 1:40.0 | Preparation. |
| 1:42.0 | Not only does he read and study and research everything that we're going to do on the person we're going to interview. |
| 1:49.0 | But then he writes a whole page of notes with all the brilliant ideas. |
| 1:54.0 | All brilliant ideas that he wants to share with the listeners. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Persephonica, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Persephonica and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.