Future Council: How Children are Responding to our Planetary Crises with Damon Gameau and The Future Council
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
(Conversation recorded on September 24th, 2024)
It is frequently true that those who will inherit the greatest consequences of our climate crisis – today's youth – have the least voice in shaping what happens next. But if given a seat at the table, what would these children have to say about creating a more sustainable path forward?
In this Reality Roundtable, Nate sits down with documentarian Damon Gameau and three young activists featured in his documentary film The Future Council, to discuss their experiences grappling with the complex challenges of transforming a system that is actively harming our planet and what they think should be done to save humanity from itself.
What do kids think about the actions of the most powerful and wealthy individuals and corporations in our global societies? How would they act differently if they had children sitting in their boardrooms? Finally, what would the world look like if we incorporated the hopes and fears of the youngest amongst us into our decision-making for the future?
About David Gameau:
Damon Gameau is an Australian film director, speaker and author. In 2015, he turned to activism with his debut feature documentary 'That Sugar Film', which sold to 25 territories and received numerous awards. Damon then directed the climate solutions feature documentary '2040' and authored an accompanying book '2040: a Handbook for the Regeneration'. Both films sit in the top 10 highest grossing Australian documentaries at the domestic box office.
Damon then co-founded Regen Studios with Anna Kaplan where together they work with philanthropists and partners to build comprehensive impact campaigns for their films, raising money for ecological solutions and awareness in classrooms, boardrooms, and Parliaments around the world.
About Skye Neville:
Skye lives near Fairbourne in North Wales. This village has been described as the doomed village and its residents are destined to become the first climate refugees of the Western world. For the past few years Skye campaigns against the plastic rubbish on kids' comics and magazines. Skye is a massive fan of sailing but has a genuine dislike for plastic wrap magazines.
About Clemence "CC" Currie:
She is the founder and current CEO of CCs Plastic Pick-up Crew, where they clean up local beaches in Scotland. She has a particular passion for the ocean, plastics and the climate crisis. CC loves hiking with her Dad but has no time for chocolate cake.
About Joaquin Minana:
Joaquin is our straight shooter! Joaquin is from The Netherlands and has worn hearing aids since he was an infant. He speaks multiple languages and wants to use these skills to speak about the injustices of the world, as a writer or lawyer. He hates math but loves the first sound he ever heard.
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| 0:00.0 | What you said about like Shell and BP and stuff being the drug dealers is quite appropriate |
| 0:06.7 | because we are all addicted to their stuff, which is why they try and blame the consumers. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes, it's your fault even though we're the ones getting you addicted, but it's your fault, |
| 0:17.7 | not ours, even though we're giving you all of this stuff. And I think even though consumers do have a role, the big businesses, the polluters, |
| 0:26.5 | the politicians, world leaders, all of that kind of stuff, have a bigger role. |
| 0:33.9 | You're listening to The Great Simplification. I'm Nate Hagan's. |
| 0:38.2 | On this show, we describe how energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior all fit together and what it might mean for our future. |
| 0:46.6 | By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans to play emergent roles in the coming great simplification. |
| 1:01.0 | Damon Gamow is a speaker, author, and director of an upcoming movie documentary, The Future |
| 1:07.3 | Council, which features eight children who take their environmental advocacy to the |
| 1:12.0 | powerful leaders behind some of the world's biggest corporations. |
| 1:15.7 | The Future Council, which I understand will be available to view in early 2025, also |
| 1:22.1 | features an animated character named Groff, which is based on the concept of the superorganism from my paper |
| 1:28.8 | and my work, and it was kind of surreal to see this come to life on screen. Throughout the |
| 1:34.9 | movie, the kids learn about Groth and the challenges he creates as they try to address |
| 1:41.5 | the climate crisis. Today's episode is a brief interview with the director, Damon Gamon, followed by a conversation |
| 1:48.5 | with three of the eight children from this movie, Sky, Cici, and Yoquin, to discuss their |
| 1:54.4 | experiences and reflections on what they learned. |
| 1:57.4 | A brief bit about these three remarkable children. |
| 2:00.3 | Sky is from North Wales. For the past few |
| 2:03.0 | years, she's campaigned against the plastic rubbish on kids' comics and magazines. Also joining |
| 2:09.7 | me from Scotland is Cece, who works with a team to comb beaches in her home city and rid them of plastic. |
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