50. Yuval Noah Harari on the History of Our Future | Anniversary Episode!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
HAPPY 1 YEAR!!! To mark the 1 year anniversary of Outrage + Optimism being a podcast, we have on historian, futurist, philosopher, and best-selling author, Yuval Noah Harari! He is best known for his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. A phenomenal read.
Yuval shares with us the power of the stories we choose to believe about ourselves. How good they can be, and how they can also trap us. We get his thoughts on the narrative of the climate crisis, and what it would take us to believe to survive it.
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| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to outragerage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rifik Karnak. I'm Christina Figuero. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. This week we celebrate a year on the air and we bring you an interview with very special guest historian and |
| 0:25.4 | author Yuval Noah Harare big milestone for us. |
| 0:37.0 | Happy birthday to all of our listeners and ourselves. |
| 0:46.0 | Who would have thought 12 months ago that we would ever make it this far? |
| 0:50.0 | Ah, well indeed. |
| 0:52.0 | Little acorns grow into sort of quite small twigs, but you know, each year goes by. |
| 0:58.0 | I naturally assume that you two would sort of humour this idea for a few weeks and then you'd refuse to participate anymore but it's |
| 1:03.2 | held our attention it's been wonderful I think hasn't it said what kind of trust is |
| 1:07.1 | that you thought that we would give up it's true Tom you know it's delightful to |
| 1:12.0 | spend time and with everyone producing this wonderful program |
| 1:15.0 | and we get to meet some of the most interesting people in the whole world. It's a kind of, well, |
| 1:19.9 | I just feel very, very lucky and privileged and happy. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm, you know, I have an attitude of gratitude |
| 1:25.0 | towards this wonderful show. |
| 1:26.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:27.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:28.1 | Absolutely. |
| 1:29.3 | And we are so grateful to all of our listeners. |
| 1:31.4 | I mean, you know, we couldn't have predicted when we started |
| 1:33.4 | this that so many people would get inspired by the podcast, who would listen on a regular basis, |
| 1:37.4 | would reach out to us. That's really kind of what has made this such an exciting project. And we actually have a bit of exciting news |
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