Climate Narratives with Jeff Biggers, Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
How can climate stories (fiction and otherwise) help us reckon with our changing environment? Do we need a new climate narrative — a road map for reimagining how we understand and take action to solve the climate emergency?
Climate One · Climate One from The Commonwealth Club
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Show Notes
In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and industrial expansion. In today’s real world, scientists are looking to geo-engineering and other human innovations to preserve the wellbeing of life on Earth. “What we’re missing is a way to galvanize people to support policies that are actually gonna change,” says Jeff Biggers, founder of The Climate Narrative Project.
So how can climate storytelling help us reckon with our changing environment? Do we need a new climate narrative to help us understand and solve the climate emergency?
Guests:
Jeff Biggers, Founder, The Climate Narrative Project
Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Author
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