232. Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection - Part Three - Living AS Nature
Outrage + Optimism
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, Christiana Figueres and her guest co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve introduce the third and final episode in their mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection.
In this episode, Living As Nature, co-hosts and a stellar cast of guests use the pandemic as their jumping off point to unpack how a moment of physical separation, from each other and the natural world, became a strange chrysalis to stronger and deeper interconnections.
Contributors from across many religious and spiritual traditions, including Bayo Akomolafe, public intellectual, and Sister True Dedication,Zen Buddhist monastic teacher join Christiana and Isabel to discuss how developing a sense of reverence and responsibility for the Earth leads to both personal and systemic transformation.
They ask: how can our unprecedented ecological and social crises become an opportunity for the foundation of a new way of relating to each other and to nature? How can we move away from living from nature to living as nature, so that we can grow and flourish?
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.
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Xiye Bastida, Co-Founder Re-Earth Initiative, Indigenous Wisdom, TIME100Next, UN HLC Ambassador, TED Speaker
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Janine Benyus, Co-Founder Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute
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Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages
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Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, Public Intellectual, Author, Professor and Chief Curator, The Emergence Network
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Sister True Dedication, Zen Buddhist monastic teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Community
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Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist, author and host of On Being podcast
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Arturo Escobar, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Wolf Martinez, Diné, Lakota, & Spanish. Two Spirit. Speaker, Ceremonialist and practitioner of Ancient Healing Arts. Therapist. Lover. Human Being.
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Kate Raworth, Author of Doughnut Economics and Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab
Dr. Gunhild Anker Stordalen, Founder and Executive Chair of EAT Foundation
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | I am Christina Figuero and I am Isabelle cavalier |
| 0:07.0 | Dear friends, thank you for joining us today on this final episode of our mini series on nature and in this part of the story we're going to |
| 0:16.7 | be exploring how we might live as nature. We would also love to get into the inquiry of how can the unprecedented ecological and social crisis that we're living |
| 0:45.6 | through right now lead to the foundation of a new way of relating to each other |
| 0:50.5 | and to the rest of nature. |
| 0:53.2 | All of us cohabitants of this planet. |
| 0:56.5 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:02.3 | For those who have been or not been with us, here quick recap. |
| 1:07.0 | In episode one, we started telling you a story, a story about the original disconnection from nature, how we humans |
| 1:20.3 | have evolved different origin stories and what the consequences of our supposed |
| 1:27.5 | superiority over nature have been. That was the episode living from Nature. In episode two, we told the next chapter of the story about how we are now beginning to live with nature. How the deep paradigms that human civilizations |
| 1:45.8 | have adopted over time have permeated the major constructs upon which our societies operate, economics, food systems, energy systems, and design. |
| 1:59.0 | Which leads us to the third and final chapter of the story which is living as nature and |
| 2:07.9 | Isa what beans can we spill about the third chapter right off the bat. |
| 2:14.0 | In this exciting last episode, we are pivoting from talking about how we are starting to live with nature, to glimpsing the future in the present and trying |
| 2:28.6 | to understand how we are now living as nature. The revelation of interdependence is at the core of this |
| 2:39.8 | glimpse into the future. Moments of crisis and solitude. |
| 2:45.0 | This is where maybe we are finding that connection most evident. |
| 2:50.0 | And this opens up as a new moment for looking inside ourselves and for many for potentially new spiritual connection. |
| 2:58.0 | We are going to be talking about wonder, about awe in the natural world world and how that shows up in our bodies and in the beautiful |
| 3:07.7 | planet that we are inhabited. |
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