231. Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection - Part Two - Living WITH Nature
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week, Christiana Figueres and her guest co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve introduce the second episode in their mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection.
In this episode, Living With Nature, the hosts share a series of conversations with experts from the worlds of food, the economy, energy and design to illuminate how our man-made systems are rooted in a separation from the natural world. You’ll hear insight and fresh ideas from author Kate Raworth, Founder and Executive Chair, EAT Gunhild Stordalen, energy strategist at Rocky Mountain Institute Kingsmill Bond, author of the Earth Transformed: An Untold History, Peter Frankopan and co-founder of Biomimicry, Janine Benyus.
With appropriate outrage, Christiana and guests will explore how the climate crisis, the energy crisis, the inequality crisis and the food crisis all share the same deep root: extractivism based on extrinsic principles. They argue that this extractivism not only depletes the planet—the very soil of the Earth itself—it also depletes our human soul.
With characteristic and bold optimism, Christiana, Isabel and guests will argue that if we can overthrow the tyranny of GDP, invest in harvesting rather than in extraction, and if we design our world mimicking nature’s genius, we might yet create a future where humans and nature thrive in balance.
This episode is part of a series that shines a new light on humanity’s fundamental relationship with the rest of nature as key to responding to the climate crisis and to transitioning into a regenerative future.
Do not miss the third and final episode, Living As Nature, in which Christiana and Isabel invite listeners to contemplate what it will take for each of us to fully awaken to our interconnectedness as, perhaps, the starting point - the foundational stone - without which no new home can be built for a truly regenerative future.
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GUESTS
Arturo Escobar, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Kate Raworth, Author of Doughnut Economics and Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab
Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist, author and host of On Being podcast
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Dr. Gunhild Anker Stordalen, Founder and Executive Chair of EAT Foundation
Kingsmill Bond, Energy Strategist at RMI
Janine Benyus, Co-Founder Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I am Isabel Cavalier co-founder of Mundo Comun. |
| 0:09.0 | And here we are listeners at the second episode of our series Our Story of Nature from |
| 0:15.0 | rupture to reconnection. Oh, Today we're going to be diving deep into our human relationship with the rest of nature over time, space, geographies, and |
| 0:46.7 | imaginations. |
| 0:48.1 | In today's episode, we are asking, does changing our relationship with the rest of nature hold the key to transforming |
| 0:56.9 | the systems that are at the basis of our human life on this planet, our economy, our food system, our energy system, and the very way we think |
| 1:08.4 | about design. Thanks for being here. So friends, it's lovely to be back here with you. Thank you for joining us once again. |
| 1:28.0 | And let's just do a quick recap of where we were last episode. Because in that episode what we did was invite all of us to first of all |
| 1:41.0 | become aware of the fact that by and large we have disconnected |
| 1:46.1 | ourselves from nature we don't necessarily think about that or are aware of that |
| 1:52.1 | as we go through our daily routines and work in life, |
| 1:55.8 | but we have disconnected ourselves from nature. So in the last episode we began to go into where did the separation come from. |
| 2:06.1 | What are the historical roots of that separation and where are we and we had a fantastic cast of brilliant guests who explained how our relationship |
| 2:19.7 | with the rest of nature has changed over time from the early humans to now. |
| 2:28.4 | In this new episode we are going to be embarking on a new chapter of the story that we started telling you before. |
| 2:35.9 | Our brilliant guests will come to illuminate how all of the systems that have been created by us humans are actually pretty much based on that same separation paradigm. |
| 2:51.6 | That disconnection has brought forth an economic system that |
| 2:57.2 | resembles the separation, a foods production and consumption system that is |
| 3:01.4 | not regenerative for life, an energy system, and even the way |
| 3:05.4 | we think about design itself is showing how that separation operates. But what is very interesting is that we're also going to see |
| 3:16.5 | about the myriad possibilities we have for reconnecting ourselves to our own nature to nature and the ways in which all of these systems that are the grounding systems for our societies are systems that are already starting or actually pretty deep into a big |
| 3:38.0 | transformation. And so here's a little taste to wedge your appetite for the |
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