An Optimist's Eye (with Bina Venkataraman)
Stay Tuned with Preet
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.8 • 32.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Preet Bharara. |
| 0:08.0 | It does have an impact to do these individual actions, but we also need to think about how we act in community. |
| 0:14.0 | And we all have communities, whether it's our workplaces, our families, our neighborhoods, |
| 0:18.0 | and indeed our political actions when we vote, and it's all the way up and down the ballot that that matters. |
| 0:25.0 | That's Bina Venkadraman. |
| 0:29.0 | She's the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe and a fellow at The Think Tank, New America. |
| 0:35.0 | Bina has spent much of her career studying and working on public policy. |
| 0:39.0 | In 2013, she took a break from serving as the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute to work in the Obama White House. |
| 0:46.0 | As a senior advisor for climate change innovation, Bina worked to prepare for an address, climate, and public health disasters, |
| 0:54.0 | like global pandemics. |
| 0:56.0 | Bina's work has prepared her for the moment we're in today. |
| 0:59.0 | As the climate crisis worsens, the inclination may be to throw up our hands and defeat, but Bina has an important message. |
| 1:06.0 | Don't give up. |
| 1:07.0 | In 2019, she published her book, The Optimists Telescope, thinking ahead in a reckless age, about how to visualize and plan for the long run. |
| 1:16.0 | She joins me this week to talk about how to be hopeful about the future, and how to put that hope into practice and policy. |
| 1:23.0 | That's coming up. |
| 1:25.0 | Stay tuned. |
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