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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

263. What Career Should I Have in a Climate Crisis?

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

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News, Planet, Business, Society & Culture, Current Affairs, Green, Policy, Finance, Society, Environment, Science, Energy, Climate

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the third episode in our How to Live a Good Life in a Climate Crisis series, where our hosts grapple with some of the fiercest climate conundrums we face.  This week, Tom, Paul and Christiana look at the issue of careers and ask - would you move jobs in response to the climate crisis? Is changing your job your most effective form of climate action? They explore what to look for if you’re attempting to use your career to scale up climate solutions. And they pose the biggie: is there even such a thing as a climate change job and a non-climate change job? Taking a moment to discuss their own careers, the hosts share what they’ve learnt about innovation, interns, and how chair-making can pave the way to the UN! We’d love to hear what your experiences are… Please do get in touch.  NOTES AND RESOURCES ‘Thuto ya Batho’ Teachings from the People: Women Adapt to Climate Change by Maite Nkoana -Mashabane Outrage + Optimism: BP’s Road to Rebuilding Trust with CEO Bernard Looney Cardiff Freight Company Wins NatWest Cymru’s ‘Green Business of the Year Award’ Gen Z seek ethical workplaces as environ-mental health burden bites (Bupa, 2021) 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey: Living and working with purpose in a transforming world (Deloitte, 2024) The Undercover Activist Creatives for Climate Learn more about the Paris Agreement. It’s official, we’re a TED Audio Collective Podcast - Proof!Check out more podcasts from The TED Audio Collective Please follow us on social media!Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Paul de Connick.

0:02.0

This is a

0:04.0

Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism.

0:07.0

I'm Tom Rivikarnack.

0:08.0

I'm Christina Pigerse.

0:10.0

And I'm Paul de Kincin.

0:11.0

This week we continue with our series on how to live a good life in a climate crisis

0:15.3

and today we talk about careers.

0:17.6

Thanks for being here. Welcome back to our mini series on how to live a good life in the climate crisis.

0:31.1

I think it's been a really interesting journey been on thus far. And today we're going

0:34.4

to be tackling another topic that is really, I think, front of mind for many people, which

0:40.5

is how you can use your career in service of solutions to the climate crisis.

0:45.0

So we have had the most important thing at all, you know, it's what is it, do you shape your life or does your life shape you?

0:50.0

These are very good questions and of course the answer like so questions and of course Paul is both.

0:55.0

But we did survey our listeners and we asked specifically whether people would change their

1:00.8

job in response to climate crisis and this is the only time

1:03.8

that a hundred percent of our listeners said yes a hundred percent of you so

1:11.6

everyone listening to this podcast it's possible you

1:13.9

weren't one of the people that respond to the survey but 100% of the people who

1:16.4

did respond said that they would change their jobs in response to climate crisis that

1:20.1

is a striking statistic and And you know what?

1:23.7

This is a poll that we did recently,

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