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Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

How Eco-Fiction Can Push Forward The Fight Against Climate Crisis With George Paxinos

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Science, Self-improvement, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Society & Culture, Education

5.022 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The climate crisis is worsening each day that passes, and yet society continues to turn a blind eye to its alarming impact on the entire planet. Climate activist George Paxinos, celebrated as the world’s most cited neuroscientist, has decided to try a different approach to catch everyone’s attention regarding this matter: eco-fiction. Sitting down with Corinna Bellizzi, he talks about his first novel, A River Divided, a story about two parties fighting over the Amazon Rainforest. George explains how his narrative aims to challenge readers to stand up and take part in the battle of nature versus nurture. He also discusses his goal to have a reset of religion, science, and culture, as well as how the ethics of scientific exploration and climate crisis might intersect. About George PaxinosGeorge Paxinos is a visionary neuroscientist who has discovered and mapped more brain regions than anyone in history. He uses principles of the mind, free will, and consciousness from neuroscience to shape the characters of his eco-fiction novel, A River Divided. An environmentalist himself, his novel explores some of the most important questions of the 21st Century: Is the human brain capable of solving the environmental crisis it created? Is this generation creating the conditions for the extinction of its progeny? In a battle of nature versus nurture, which will be victorious?Science and idealism are woven together in this novel about the search for meaning, for love, and for an understanding of what is important for us both as individuals and as actors in the environment. The characters of A River Divided will stay with you long after you read the powerful and evocative last sentence: “A Child, I will bring to the world a child.” Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgepaxinosGuest Website: georgepaxinos.com.auLove the show? Subscribe, rate, review, & share! https://caremorebebetter.com Follow us on social and join the conversation! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/CareMore.BeBetterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-betterTwitter: https://twitter.com/caremorebebetterClubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/care-more-be-betterSupport Care More. Be Better: A Social Impact + Sustainability PodcastCare More Be Better answers only to our collective conscience and aims to put more good into the world. As a listener, reader, and subscriber you are part of this pod and this community and we are honored to have your support.

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0:00.0

Because if people in ancient Rome were not concerned about the environment, we wouldn't be here today, or if they had the means to destroy the environment, today we would be dying.

0:10.6

The time will come that people will feel the consequence of war actions now.

0:15.5

Barrel of petrol is equivalent to the work it does for us, for my car, is the equivalent to 11 people working for you for a whole year.

0:27.6

Well, that's a convenient thing for us.

0:31.1

But who's going to scrub the atmosphere to remove the CO2 that's going to burn our descendants? Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes.

0:46.3

Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.

0:51.3

You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars,

0:55.1

and get involved today.

0:56.9

Here's your host, Karina Belizzi.

1:02.2

Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends.

1:04.6

I'm your host, Karina Belizzi.

1:06.7

Today, as we come back from our holiday break

1:09.2

and enter what will be our fourth year of this

1:12.2

podcasting journey, I'm thrilled to bring you on a deep conversation with an acclaimed

1:17.5

neuroscientist about a beautiful story that he wrote. This is a work of fiction. Now, the one that

1:25.7

explores perhaps some crazy ideas that seeks solutions and that inspires us to work for more meaningful change together.

1:34.3

Now, this isn't the first time that I've interviewed authors of fiction, the eco-fiction authors as it would be, about the power of their craft to push for real meaningful change.

1:47.0

We have explored through a futurist's perspective on the topic of surrender when I hosted a discussion

1:55.6

with Lee Schneider. And then there was Juliet Rose, whose works of fiction have helped us to understand addiction

2:02.6

and battling those addictions through sometimes other unhealthy habits, throwing ourselves into hard work and fighting fires in California,

2:11.6

creating new traumas in their wake, and really the connection to our ecology and what we do as a people

2:20.3

to surmount some of these challenging times, the climate change crisis that we confront.

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