Me vs We: What Matters Most for Climate Action?

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our personal habits as citizens, consumers, employees and parents. At the same time, society needs to fundamentally modernize the food, transportation, building and energy systems. That mind-blowing amount of change is so daunting, it’s no wonder people want to skip away into the happy land of denial. How should we think about change — and how do our words shape our behavior? Where does change really begin? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: George Lakoff, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UC Berkeley Amanda Ravenhill, Executive Director, The Buckminster Fuller Institute Margaret Klein Salamon, Founder and Executive Director, The Climate Mobilization Additional interviews: Jonah Gottlieb, Student and Director of Schools for Climate Action This program was recorded at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 26, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Race the rudder. Raise the sails. Raise the sales.
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0:30.5	Hi everyone. I'm Sarah Catherine and I work on strategy and content for Climate 1.
0:34.3	We've been interviewing top experts on all things climate since our podcast got started
0:38.2	over a decade ago. But now you're the ones we want to interview. Climate One would love your
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1:12.9	I'm Greg Dalton. Today's episode was recorded with a live audience in late February.
1:17.3	That was before coronavirus was declared a global pandemic and took over our daily lives.
1:23.9	As that drama started to unfold with frightening speed, Americans were encouraged to take individual action for societal benefit.
1:31.3	Young and healthy people were asked to stay away from bars, sporting events, and other gathering places because of the risks everyday social behaviors posed to the vulnerable people around us.
1:41.3	As someone who thinks about climate change all day, every day,
1:45.0	for me this echoes the calls for everyone to cut down on carbon emissions
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