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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

260) Rutger Bregman: Transforming our future by relearning a hopeful history of humankind

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Rutger Bregman is a historian and the author of the New York Times Bestselling book 'Utopia for Realists' and 'Humankind: A Hopeful History'.

In this podcast episode, Rutger sheds light on how our human evolution has actually been about the survival of the friendliest rather than the fittest; how power literally changes people's brains and makes them less able to empathize and see the humanity in others; why we need a perspective shift on our human nature to transform our future; and more.

 

Featured music of the month: Alive in the Wilderness by Endless Field

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podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those

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0:22.3

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0:26.8

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0:30.7

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0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us.

0:54.6

Hey, Green Dreamer, just to give you a heads up, we're going to be taking a brief summer hiatus

0:59.2

after reaching episode 260 as we prepare for the launch of our Faw season of the show coming

1:04.7

to you in September. That said, I will be replaying some of our most profound past episodes

1:10.0

throughout the next weeks

1:11.7

in case you haven't listened to them yet. And we also have hundreds of conversations in the

1:16.7

archive. So definitely take this opportunity to go back to listen to our earlier episodes if you're

1:22.5

not entirely caught up. And if you've listened to more than a few episodes at this point,

1:27.4

have learned from

1:28.1

the show, and want to support us in continuing the podcast and publishing our fall season of

1:33.4

Green Dreamer, I'd love to get your direct support starting at just $2 at greendreamer.com slash support.

1:40.6

If you've already contributed or are a current patron, I appreciate you so much and thank you for believing in and really valuing this platform.

1:49.7

We've had this completely upside down picture of our history for so long and that if you zoom out enough, then you'll realize that actually for the vast majority of our existence,

2:02.9

when we were still nomadic and together, which we've been for 95% of our history,

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