What feeling does it evoke? Boredom? Apathy? Despair?
Symptoms, perhaps, of repeatedly trying an approach which isn’t working…
This first episode of TWWSI explores why we’re feeling stagnant…and how we can change it. Investigating the efficacy of our most trusted mitigation tactics, from conscious consumerism to international treaties we reveal a problem at the heart of our methods, which requires us to look at climate change differently. No more neutral, technological, ‘green’ solutions – it’s time to get political.
Tolmeia is a 22-year-old artist and climate justice activist, working at the intersection of climate and creativity. Originally an aspiring fashion designer, she has redirected her drive and ambition to focus on environmental and social justice issues in the age of the climate emergency.
She is currently an active part of the campaign Clean Creatives a group working to stop the advertising industry from working with fossil fuel companies. She also hosts the Idealistically Podcast, in which her and her guests imagine what the world could look like.
Simon is an ecological economist who is trying to understand the current economy in order to build a better one. Simon’s research interests include the post-growth and degrowth economics, post-capitalism, and alternative economies. His academic writing has been published in a variety of books and journals including Ecological Economics, The Lancet Planetary Health and his public writing has been published by international outlets including BBC Future, New Socialist, and Current Affairs.
Summing up Gus’s career is difficult – because his roles have been so varied & his impact so massive. Gus as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 1999 to 2009. Before than he was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council for the President of the United States.
He now campaigns to change the system from the outside; he has authored a new book called They Knew a searing indictment of the federal government’s inaction on climate change.
Publications include America the Possible: Manifesto for the New Economy, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment along with many others.
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