Talking Ecology, Climate and Hope | Charles Eisenstein

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, we welcome to the show philosopher and public intellectual, Charles Eisenstein.

Charles is the author of a number of important books including Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. He joins us today to talk about his most recent book, Climate: A New Story.

Along the way we tackle many challenging and thorny topics, such as solutionism, polarisation, despair and how to best think with our ecological crisis so that we may return to flourishing.

Excellent stuff.

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0:00.0	Do you have a favorite?
0:02.0	Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.
0:11.0	All the broken and shunned creatures.
0:17.0	Someone's got to care for them.
0:19.0	Who shall it be if not us?
0:45.3	Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.
0:49.2	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.
0:51.6	This week we welcome to the show philosopher and public intellectual Charles Eisenstein.
0:56.0	Charles is the author of a number of important books including Sacred Economics and The
1:00.9	More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is possible. He joins us today to talk
1:05.0	about his most recent book, Climate, a New Story. Very excited for this one. Charles Eisenstein,
1:11.3	welcome aboard.
1:13.0	Happy to be here, Gordon.
1:15.0	Nice one, nice, when.
1:16.0	Well, for first-time guests, we have a traditional first question, which is
1:23.7	Charles were you a weird kid?
1:25.1	Isn't everybody a weird kid on some level?
1:28.0	Ultimately yes if you end up on this show people usually still are.
1:36.6	Yeah, I guess I was probably a weird kid. Anything in particular stand up? Well I was obsessed with counting.
1:45.0	I like, I challenged myself to count to a million and I had one of those little clickers that counts for you and I loved stop watches.
1:54.3	I was probably probably was and so am I've been told anyway on the spectrum but that wasn't really a
2:01.5	concept back then.
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