#41 Andrew Revkin: Beware of Narrative Capture
What Could Possibly Go Right? · Vicki Robin
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Show Notes
Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honored and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He has held positions at National Geographic and Discover Magazine and won the top awards in science journalism multiple times, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Revkin has written acclaimed books on the history of humanity’s relationship with the weather, the changing Arctic, global warming, and the assault on the Amazon rain forest.
He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- That we need to be aware of narrative capture and being misled by stories or avoiding truth.
- That we should engage in more conversations with others who have different views, and stay in curiosity rather than debate.
- That we need to work through the trauma of recent times and “look for compassionate intervention in our traumatized psyches”.
- That the resilience of an ecosystem to environmental stress is a function of the diversity of responses and species; we need the “edge pushers”
- That like the “Serenity Prayer”, we should embrace “the perfect imperfectness of our nature as humans”.
Resources
- Article: “Complicating the Narratives”
- Article: My Climate Change
- Video: We are perfect*: Andrew Revkin at TEDxPortland
- Article: My Lucky Stroke
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