Climate Optimism: the radical shift we need to survive ft. Dr. Shelby Riskin

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Dr. Shelby Riskin is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Recently she was a part of a mind blowing discovery found in the soil underneath a newly developed Toronto park. Today we are going to talk about what was found, the history of wetlands, how they relate to the Climate Crisis and most importantly - how "Climate Optimism" may be the key to surviving the "Climate Crisis".

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0:00.0	controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make
0:04.9	sense. Today we are talking to Dr. Shelby Riskin, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at
0:11.6	the University of Toronto. We're going to talk about the incredible new discovery she found under
0:15.8	a newly developed Toronto Waterfront Park about deforestation in the Amazon and the importance
0:20.5	of climate optimism right now.
0:23.5	Hello, Dr. Shelby Riskin.
0:25.7	Hello.
0:26.7	How are you doing?
0:27.6	I am doing really well this morning.
0:29.1	How are you doing?
0:29.7	I'm good.
0:30.6	So I thought we would first talk about what it is that you teach at this famous U of T school before we get into talking about this new park
0:38.4	and climate optimism.
0:39.6	Absolutely.
0:41.1	I teach a lot of classes for second and third year
0:44.1	undergrads for the most part.
0:46.6	And I teach a lot of environmental biology
0:49.6	and ecosystem ecology.
0:51.2	And then conservation biology, biodiversity science, a little bit of plants and society. Okay. So it all sort of is making sense as to why they maybe reached out to you when this sort of like unbelievable thing happened at this waterfront Toronto Park. Well, part of that was luck to being in the right place at the right time but yeah okay so for those of you
1:11.2	who are listening and are not from Toronto there is a new park that was built on the waterfront in
1:17.3	Toronto that is in my opinion mind blowing it is I went there the other day I completely teared up
1:23.8	I'm a bird watcher there were so many birds birds. The visuals of this park, I mean,
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