Drs. Jane Goodall & Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Talk About Hope

How to Save a Planet

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Science, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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If you’re curious to know how Drs. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Drs. Jane Goodall first fell in love with the natural world, both on land and underwater, this week’s episode is for you. Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace is an ethologist and conservationist best known for her long-term study of chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania. Today, Jane hosts a podcast called The Jane Goodall Hopecast and is a global activist for holistic solutions to the greatest threats facing our planet like biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. One of her recent guests was our very own Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. They discuss their career paths, the role of individuals in the climate movement and then dive deep into Ayana’s tenuous relationship with the word hope. Guests: Drs. Jane Goodall and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Call to Action: Check out Dr. Jane Goodall’s global environmental youth program Roots & Shoots, which aims to empower young people to affect positive change in their communities with chapters all over the world. Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet.
0:03.4	I'm Dr. Iana Elizabeth Johnson.
0:05.4	I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the show about what we need to do to address climate
0:09.2	change and how we make those things happen.
0:11.4	Um, so Iana, what's up?
0:27.2	I have one word for you.
0:28.4	Okay.
0:30.4	Hope.
0:31.4	Oh, that.
0:32.4	God.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:36.4	Not my favorite word.
0:38.0	Not your favorite word.
0:39.0	You are one of the few people that I know that is like fully, committedly, anti-hope.
0:44.2	I'm not against like the definition of it.
0:48.0	I just don't like the way people throw around that word all the time as if having hope
0:52.3	is the answer to anything.
0:54.1	Right.
0:55.1	And I realize that it just makes me sound like a cranky old person.
0:57.9	Exactly.
0:58.9	Yeah.
0:59.9	So it goes.
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