Presenting: 'The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast - Does What We Do Really Matter?'
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Can one vegan with no car really help the planet?
Today, a special presentation of a podcast we think O+O listeners will love from The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast.
The climate crisis gets more terrifying every year. The impact is undeniable and can feel totally overwhelming. Hope won’t solve it, but neither will hopelessness. A surefire way to manage anxiety and stress over the existential problem threatening our planet is to participate in solutions. So our team is prepared to answer your questions about how you can meaningfully make a difference.
In this episode titled, ‘Does What We Do Really Matter?’, hosts Caleigh Wells and Candice Dickens-Russell tackle a hard question; Why bother taking any individual actions to help the planet if industry and other nations pollute so much that they cancel you out? Caleigh and Candice discuss and invite guest Jiaying Zhao, psychology professor at University of British Columbia, to answer how your daily choices to affect climate change can have an impact but maybe not the way you think.
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The Anti-Dread Climate Podcast
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Caleigh Wells
Host, TADCP, and KCRW Climate Reporter
Candice Dickens-Russell
Environmental Educator, and CEO of Friends of the Los Angeles River
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks, five years into our podcast, one thing that comes up regularly from you, |
| 0:06.2 | our listeners, is that you're wrestling with these dilemmas about what we can do to take climate action and how we can do that in our day-to-day lives. |
| 0:19.9 | So with that in mind, we wanted to introduce you to this amazing climate |
| 0:24.2 | podcast that tackles some of the dilemmas that we all face on a daily |
| 0:29.5 | basis. The podcast is called the Anti-Dread Climate Podcast, and it takes on climate issues with attention- grabbing |
| 0:39.2 | titles like Green Holidays without being a Grinch, |
| 0:43.5 | or how do I avoid being a climate cop? |
| 0:47.6 | Each episode is bite-sized, I love that. |
| 0:52.0 | They're about 15 minutes or less, but they are packed with useful snippets of information and experts so that at the end you are armed with enough information to make more informed choices. |
| 1:06.2 | Today we're going to play you one called, Does What We Do We Do Really Matter? And it was originally aired. What we do really matter. |
| 1:13.1 | And it was originally aired on the Anti-Dread Climate |
| 1:17.8 | podcast in October of last year. |
| 1:20.7 | Enjoy. |
| 1:27.0 | Candice, do you remember when I pitched you this question as our very first episode? I do. |
| 1:28.0 | And I remember thinking that this is ridiculous. |
| 1:30.0 | This is the hardest question. |
| 1:32.0 | I agree, but it really goes right to why we started this podcast. It really does the question is from Spencer |
| 1:37.5 | Aligart of Brooklyn He's trying to do his part for climate with some big lifestyle changes. He's a vegan, he doesn't drive, and he wants to know, is it really worth it? |
| 1:47.6 | Would it make a difference if I or many people started to live a less carbon intense or or |
| 1:55.0 | greenhouse gas emitting intense, greenhouse gas emitting intense lifestyle, |
| 1:58.0 | especially if we have very wealthy people |
| 2:01.0 | flying private jets, consuming a lot more than the average person, |
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