220. Inequality Is At The Root!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism, where we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue about building a sustainable future.
This week, Christiana joins us from Singapore where she has been attending the inspirational Earthshot Prize Awards, a week of climate and nature-based workshops and events, culminating in a prize awarded to 5 winners who are scaling the most innovative solutions to the world’s toughest environmental challenges. She points to the fact that the prize itself also represents a mindset, by acknowledging that we do have what it takes to tackle these issues if we support and finance incredible initiatives such as these. The three hosts also discuss the recent concerning polls around the US Presidential Elections suggesting that our democratic institutions are not delivering solutions to the systemic global challenges we now face. They also touch on other topics; as insurance companies forecast more climate destruction, what does an uninsurable future look like? How do religion and faith communities deliver in the climate crisis?
Music this week comes from DL Rossi, a Singer-Songwriter from the Metro Detroit area of Michigan. His latest single “With Two Feet” speaks to the random nature of life, and the lessons learned from just being able to show up and work through things as they come.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage an Optimism, I'm Tom Rificanak. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Cristiana Figueroos. |
| 0:17.8 | And I'm Paul. |
| 0:18.8 | Oh, sorry. |
| 0:19.8 | You weren't in screen, so it wasn't that I don't love you and know that you're there, |
| 0:25.3 | but you weren't in screen. |
| 0:26.3 | Please carry on with me. |
| 0:27.3 | We've got some tech problems and I may not sound very good quite yet, but |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:30.8 | Great, and lovely to have you with us today. |
| 0:33.3 | We talk about the earth shot prize in Singapore, the incredibly exciting announcement of the |
| 0:37.0 | third cohort of winners, and we give you updates on the Progress towards COP28. |
| 0:42.2 | We discuss the concerning polls around the US presidential election next year, and we |
| 0:47.2 | have music from DL Rossi, thanks for being here. |
| 0:51.2 | OK, so Cristiana, you have to be on stage in Singapore soon, which is where you are |
| 0:58.6 | dining in from as part of the launch of the earth shot prize. |
| 1:01.1 | So we're going to try and respect that and be as quick as we can if Paul could stop messing |
| 1:04.3 | around with his microphones. |
| 1:05.3 | Thanks. |
| 1:06.3 | I mean, look at... |
| 1:07.3 | Carry on, come here. |
| 1:09.3 | Cristiana, yesterday was the launch, the third launch of the earth shot prize, I went |
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