The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Climate change is often described as one of the single most important and existential issues of our time - that there is no greater threat to humanity. While the effects of climate on our ecosystems and wildlife is one of my greatest concerns, it does not tell the whole story.
On this weeks Frankly, I highlight (what was in my case) Seven Stages of Climate Awareness – from recognizing 'there is an environment' to understanding that the systems dynamics of the human economy implies a much different choreography of societal response than is currently being advertised and pursued. Global warming is becoming more obvious to more people, but the interventions look quite different at Stage 7 than Stage 4. It is unlikely we'll find 'solutions' without first understanding the dynamics at its core.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good humans. I have decided to attempt weekly franklies. Our podcast comes out on |
| 0:09.5 | Wednesday mornings and we will have weekly franklies as long as it doesn't impair my |
| 0:16.0 | constitution or I run out of things to say. And I think the latter is pretty unlikely. |
| 0:22.7 | Today I would like to give a reflection about climate change, not about the science of climate |
| 0:32.4 | change, but about the different stages of awareness when it comes to the issue of global warming and |
| 0:42.3 | our future. I can't categorize that everyone follows this same sequence, but this sequence of |
| 0:52.5 | stages is roughly what I've followed in my own life. |
| 0:55.8 | And I think it's important to attempt to explain why lots of people use the word climate |
| 1:05.4 | change, but their solutions and their fixes and their hopes and interventions are wildly different. |
| 1:15.8 | So seven stages of climate awareness. |
| 1:19.9 | Well, they're stage zero, which is that the human sphere and the environment are, are, are not separate. |
| 1:29.8 | Many, many humans go through life, taking that forest walk to work or getting a fish |
| 1:37.7 | out of a lake. |
| 1:39.1 | And it all seems like it's part of their life. |
| 1:42.6 | The natural world and the environmental processes are invisible to people. |
| 1:49.1 | It's just all their life. |
| 1:51.3 | Which brings us to stage one, which is a recognition that the human system is embedded in an environment that has its own ecological processes, |
| 2:03.9 | creatures, systems, et cetera. |
| 2:08.3 | I learned about this at an early age for no, I mean, for one reason, at least when I saw |
| 2:15.1 | the American Indian ad with the tear streaming down |
| 2:18.3 | his face for litter in the 1970s. |
| 2:22.6 | But it became relatively apparent to me that to get the conveniences and stimulation and |
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