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Climate Narratives with Jeff Biggers, Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson

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Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and industrial expansion. In today’s real world, scientists are looking to geo-engineering and other human innovations to preserve the wellbeing of life on Earth. “What we’re missing is a way to galvanize people to support policies that are actually gonna change,” says Jeff Biggers, founder of The Climate Narrative Project. So how can climate storytelling help us reckon with our changing environment? Do we need a new climate narrative to help us understand and solve the climate emergency? Guests: Jeff Biggers, Founder, The Climate Narrative Project Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff Writer, The New Yorker Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Author Related Links: Climate Narrative Project Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition The Ministry for the Future Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,

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0:17.5

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0:33.9

How can climate storytelling help us reckon with our changing environment?

0:39.0

Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary, people who are in power and disempowered.

0:44.7

I'm Greg Dalton.

0:47.2

First, the weather changed. The deniers knew why, but they still doomed us with their lives.

0:55.3

War made the earth even hotter. Her rice melted and all their species crashed.

1:02.1

In the past decade, narratives of a dystopia and climate future have helped connect people with

1:06.8

characters and worlds decimated by industrial expansion and climate disruption. In the real world,

1:12.6

scientists are looking to geoengineering and other innovations to help preserve the well-being of life

1:17.7

on Earth. 20 years ago, we were writing about this, then you're just a journalist off on a wild

1:23.4

goose chase or you're a science fiction writer portraying an implausible future, now everybody's there.

1:30.3

Kim Stanley Robinson is an award-winning science fiction author of more than 20 books, including the best-selling Mars trilogy.

1:37.1

His most recent novel is The Ministry for the Future, which uses fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of a climate future that may not be so far off.

1:45.9

Controlled flooding to counteract the effects of flood control. And that's really the theme of the book,

1:53.7

these sort of interventions that then demand new interventions on top of them.

1:58.1

Elizabeth Colbert is a staff writer with a New Yorker and author of The Sixth Extinction,

2:02.4

which won a Pulitzer Prize.

2:04.3

Her new book is Under a White Sky, The Nature of the Future.

2:07.9

She and Kim Stanley Robinson will join us later in the program.

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