The Future Earth: Eric Holthaus and Katharine Wilkinson
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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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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