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Build For Tomorrow

The Climate Problem We Can Solve Now

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Climate change is described as a “generational battle,” in which young people care and older people don’t. But this is a perfect example of how we think about generations all wrong — and that has big consequences. If we can drop our assumptions about generational divides, we might just have a shot at solving some of the world’s most urgent problems. Get in touch! Newsletter: jasonfeifer.bulletin.com Website: jasonfeifer.com Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer Sponsors: Indeed.com/ARCHIVE Lightstream.com/BFT Shopify.com/BUILD jordanharbinger.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.

0:14.0

It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.

0:20.0

Because Slackbot isn't just another

0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot

0:28.8

to learn more. This is Build for Tomorrow, a podcast about the smartest solutions to our most

0:35.1

misunderstood problems. I'm Jason P Fiver, and in each episode,

0:38.7

I take something that seems concerning or confusing today and figure out where it came from,

0:42.8

what important things we're missing, and how we can create more opportunity tomorrow.

0:47.6

If you had to guess, who would you say cares more about climate change? Is it young people or old people? I mean, this may sound

0:57.2

like a stupid question because obviously the answer is young people, right? That's what everybody

1:01.6

says. It's why when Time magazine named Greta Tunberg, the person of the year in 2019, they

1:06.8

wrote that Greta is, quote, a standard bearer in a generational battle, an avatar of youth activists across the globe, end quote.

1:14.8

And just consider the weight of those words, a generational battle, like a war between the young who want to fix this urgent problem and the old who are standing in their way.

1:25.4

I mean, Greta says it herself.

1:26.8

You can see that among young people, the concern is bigger.

1:31.7

And here's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

1:34.7

It would be remiss if we didn't mention, I think, of the generational dynamic that this challenge

1:43.3

represents. And here's how the bigger clash was described on CBS News.

1:47.5

I've seen a lot of younger people, maybe they're millennials, some are even Gen Z,

1:52.6

saying, look, the world that we are inheriting is such a disaster, and that is because of

2:00.6

baby boomers.

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