218) Ezra Silk: Moving into emergency mode to address our ecological breakdown
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ezra Silk is the co-founder of The Climate Mobilization and the author of the organization's 108-page Victory Plan, which is an influential exploration of how the federal government can organize and implement a mobilization to save civilization from the Climate Emergency and ecological crisis.
In this podcast episode, Ezra sheds light on what it means to push for a World War II-scale mobilization in addressing our ecological breakdown; why we can't afford to create changes based on gradualism; and more.
Featured music: Mining for Steal by Fuchsia
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| 1:28.2 | The main international body that's delivered the authoritative reports on what's happening, |
| 1:33.4 | the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those reports are delivered through a very |
| 1:36.9 | compromised process in which governments need to sign off on the summary for policymakers. |
| 1:42.6 | So governments that have huge interest in exporting fossil fuels |
| 1:46.6 | like Saudi Arabia, Australia, the United States get to sign off on what's presented as the |
| 1:52.4 | consensus of the scientific community. So it's not in their interest for this body to say, |
| 1:57.7 | well, we're completely out of time and we need to stop emitting greenhouse gases right now, which is what any ethical interpretation of this situation would tell you. |
| 2:07.8 | That was Ezra Silk, the co-founder of the climate mobilization and the author of the organization's |
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