261. How to Live a Good Life in a Climate Crisis - Introduction
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In episode 1 of our How To Live A Good Life in a Climate Crisis series, the Outrage + Optimism hosts introduce you to their new mini series and discuss how they define a good life.
For the next few weeks, Tom, Paul and Christiana will explore questions that you, the listeners, have asked us to address, around what it means to live a good life at this pivotal moment, facing uncertainty and judgments. They’ll talk about whether we should fly, what we eat, how to enjoy a meaningful career and whether or not we should have children.
This free ranging discussion attempts to shine a light on the interplay between the largest issue facing humanity - the climate crisis - and the difference each of us can make.
Although this series concerns itself with individual action, part of our role is to call on governments and other institutions to precipitate systemic change.
Please don’t expect any right or wrong answers! Tom, Paul and Christiana will not prescribe you the ingredients for the perfect life! They will share their own insights, stories and struggles. And after listening there’s a good chance you might feel more confused - we only hope you’ll be confused at a deeper level.
We’d love to hear what you think.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Tom Rifik Karnak. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Christina figures. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we kick off our special series, |
| 0:14.0 | How to Live a Good Life in the Climate Crisis. |
| 0:16.0 | These are the episodes that you the listeners |
| 0:18.0 | have been asking us for for so long. |
| 0:20.0 | How do we grapple with the big issues we are all facing in our lives? |
| 0:24.0 | And how do we live the best possible life we can, |
| 0:27.0 | while the climate crisis is unfolding all around us? |
| 0:30.0 | We'll be digging into these issues and more. |
| 0:32.0 | Thanks so much for being. |
| 0:33.4 | Okay, friends, so this is very exciting. |
| 0:38.9 | We're now launching our brand new series |
| 0:40.9 | on how to live a good life in a climate crisis and we are just going to take a |
| 0:46.2 | bit of time in this episode to introduce what we're going to be trying to do over the course |
| 0:49.9 | of the next few weeks because this is something a little bit different for us. We're going to be taking a |
| 0:53.7 | break from our regular programming where we go through each week and look at the news, although we might be |
| 0:58.4 | popping up in your feed with the odd bonus if something very significant happens. but for the next few weeks, |
| 1:03.2 | outrage and optimism is going to be the three of us spending time trying to answer the questions |
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