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The Future Earth: Eric Holthaus and Katharine Wilkinson

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Science has given us a realistic picture of what Earth will look like with unmitigated climate change: increased extreme weather events, crippled economies, and a world where those with the least are the hardest hit. By creating community and sharing feelings of fear and determination, “you can rely on each other and feed off each other…having an ecosystem of all these different people and entities and organizations that are involved in this great transformation effort is so critical,” says Project Drawdown VP Katharine Wilkinson. What would a radically re-envisioned future look like? What solutions do we need to replace tomorrow’s doom-and-gloom projections with thriving equitable cities, renewed political consciousness and carbon-free economies? A conversation on reimagining our role in creating climate solutions. Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Eric Holthaus, Author, The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming (HarperOne, 2020) Katharine Wilkinson, Vice President, Project Drawdown Additional Speaker: Michael Méndez, assistant professor of environmental planning and policy at the University of California, Irvine This program was recorded via video on July 21, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.7

What will the future Earth look like?

0:19.5

Climate One Conversations feature energy companies and

0:22.2

environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate

0:27.5

challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. On today's program, reimagining our future, can the climate

0:33.1

crisis be turned around within the next couple of decades? I mean, the most depressing thing is that we waited so long to handle it, but that's in the past.

0:41.3

You know, you can't really do much about it at this point, other than decide that that's even more motivation to make the change right away.

0:48.3

A new book from Eric Holdhouse, The Future Earth, a radical vision for what's possible in the age of warming,

0:55.2

is a hopeful look at a topic that is depressing. He imagines a future in which the Green New Deal

1:00.3

has become a reality. Fossil fuel burning is criminalized, and carbon emissions have been reduced

1:05.7

to zero. The solutions, he says, are all available to us if we have the courage to make them happen.

1:12.4

But even the most dedicated activists can occasionally face dread, depression, and crippling climate anxiety.

1:18.9

While those feelings can stand in the way of action, Catherine Wilkinson, vice president of Project Drawdown, reminds us that they're also part of the journey.

1:26.9

How do we mourn and imagine, right?

1:29.2

How do we feel fear and feel determination? Maybe most of all, how do we link arms and keep

1:35.7

each other going because we're probably not going to have the fire in the belly ourselves

1:40.5

every day? Experiencing grief over the loss of the environment as we know it is an emotion that's

1:46.2

familiar to many of us.

1:47.8

In the future earth, Eric Holthaus uses a word that perfectly describes that feeling,

1:52.8

solostalgia.

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