Outrage + Optimism

Andrew Winston

Writer, Adviser/Speaker on Megatrends & Sustainability, Consultant on Corporate Strategy

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You gotta see their punkishly cosmic music video for “A New Future”

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Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon

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119. Dealing with Climate Grief with Luisa Neubauer Oct 07, 2021

Show notes

With only 99 months left until 2030, and COP26 in less than 1, time is ticking on 1.5. And young people know it.

So today, a timely and relevant conversation with Climate Activist, and return guest to Outrage + Optimism, Luisa Neubauer. This time, focusing on climate change and its impact on the mental health and outlook on the future of young people everywhere.

The backdrop to the conversation with Luisa are two recently published studies (One from The Lancet, another from Science.org) examining the psychological effect of climate induced anxiety and perceived government inaction on our youth, and their current and future lived experience of the impact of climate change.

We also consider causes for optimism at the other end of the spectrum as The Eartshot Prize has announced its finalists and is featuring a high profile TV series focusing on the regenerative and transformative projects from small community efforts to public policy driven national initiatives.

A just future is possible. What will we choose?

Hit play, join us for the conversation, and stick around for musical guest this week is the one and only Gizmo Varillas!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Earthshot The TV Series featuring Christiana Figueres is now available to view on Discovery+ and BBC iPlayer!

TEDCountdown Summit is next week!

Climate Grief and Anxiety Studies:

Intergenerational Inequities in Exposure to Climate Extremes

Check out the incredible activists Christiana and Paul met in Dubai:

HE Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany

permanent representative of the UAE to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

The UAE Mission to IRENA

Twitter | Instagram

Nisreen Elsaim

Chair, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change

Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram

Heeta Lakhani

Global Focal Point, YOUNGO and Director, UmeUs United Pvt. Ltd.

Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram

Children and Youth constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (YOUNGO)

Twitter | Linktr.ee | Website | Instagram

Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY16)

Twitter | Website | Instagram

A recommendation from Clay:

Go listen to ‘The Flock’ - An epic audio drama about rising up against environmental destruction - From the view of birds!

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Thank you to our guest this week, Luisa Neubauer!

Luisa Neubauer

Twitter | Instagram

Check out her podcast:

1.5 Degrees

And of course, her incredible TED Talk

Learn more about Fridays For Future

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Amazing music this week was from Gizmo Varillas!

Gizmo Varillas

Music | Website | Vinyl

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Tom Rivett-Carnac:

Paul Dickinson:

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Read the Sierra Club’s rundown of ‘Climate Night'

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118. Protecting Our Planet with Cristián Samper Sep 30, 2021

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You probably heard last week was Climate Week and UNGA. But, what actually happened?

To cover it all, we get into the cornucopia of methane reduction announcements from countries across the world, a quick update on China, and a special focus this week on the announcement of the ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’, an announcement that saw 9 philanthropic organisations, including the Bezos Earth Fund, collectively commit $5 billion of funds to the 30x30 campaign.

We explore what this funding announcement means for the campaign, what effect this could have on government ambition and commitment to biodiversity as we gear up for COP26, and how this is a goal every single one of us can unite behind.

Joining us this week is Cristián Samper, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Cristián played a key role in convening the 9 organizations to launch the Protecting Our Planet Challenge. It marks the largest-ever philanthropic commitment to nature conservation and a significant step in addressing the triple crisis that threatens our planet – climate change, nature loss and economic insecurity.

Thanks for listening! Stick around ‘til the end for a live performance of 'Ocean' by special musical guest Palmaria!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Go watch Global Citizen Live!

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Thank you to our guest this week:

Cristián Samper

President and CEO | Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Conservation Society

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Bezos Earth Fund

Website | Twitter | Instagram

High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People (30x30 campaign)

Website | Twitter

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Amazing music this week was from Palmaria!

Palmaria

Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Website

Listen to 'Ocean'

Also, check out their live performance music video for ‘Ocean’!

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Tom Rivett-Carnac:

Paul Dickinson:

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117. The Seeds Are Sown for a Food Revolution with Agnes Kalibata Sep 24, 2021

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Following the success of UN Food Systems Summit, or as it’s also known- “The People’s Summit” we get a chance to speak to the driving force behind it, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Food Systems Summit, Agnes Kalibata.

Formerly Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) from 2008 to 2014, she drove programs that moved her country to food security helping to lift more than a million Rwandans out of poverty.

Now as Special Envoy, her efforts toward progress of the delivery of the SDGs, and to prioritise Food Systems in the global conversation around climate change are coming to a 2 year culmination. Besides this summit being the first time the UN has called a summit dedicated to food systems, it is engaging more than 100,000 people from 147 countries through 900 independent multi-stakeholder dialogues on food system transformation. UN Summits are often mostly prepared statements by member states. This move to put people and dialogue at the center was a radical return to destroying our siloed thinking when it comes to global issues.

The Food Revolution begins with a Thought Revolution, and people are at the heart of systemic change.

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Check out Friday For Future’s #UprootTheSystem

Thank you to our guests this week:

Dr Agnes Kalibata

UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy | 2021 Food Systems Summit

UN Food Systems Summit 2021

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116. Setting The Table for a Food Revolution Sep 23, 2021

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Welcome to the first episode in a brand new series on The Future of Food!

Today, this episode coincides with a very important international gathering, the first of its kind at the United Nations. Known as the UN Food Systems Summit, formally, it is also called The People’s Summit.

During this ongoing series we will seek to unlock the many changes needed to enable each sector – government, corporations and citizens to ask themselves, “How can we contribute to a transformative movement for an inclusive, regenerative and circular society where access to nutritious food is a right we actually realize for every single person?”

But before we eat, we need to set the table. We’re joined on this episode by:

Dr. David Nabarro

Co-Director | Imperial College of London Institute of Global Health Innovation

Senior Advisor | Food Systems Summit Dialogues

Strategic Director | 4SD Switzerland

Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19

Johan Rockström

Director | Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research

Dr. Gunhild A Stordalen

Founder & Executive Chair | EAT

These incredible guests help us explore in-depth the challenges and opportunities our current food system faces, and show us why getting food right might just be the key to unlocking our path to achieving our 2030 goals.

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Global Citizen is streaming a 24 hour concert live from Central Park on Saturday, Sept 25

Watch BTS do their thing at UNGA

The 500-foot Sea Creature will be scaling the UN Facade this week

Fridays For Future is hosting a Climate Strike on Friday, Sept 24. Find your local strike here

Be sure to catch up on Climate Night which aired Live on Sept. 22

Thank you to our guests this week:

UN Food Systems Summit

Website | Twitter

Dr David Nabarro

Co-Director | Imperial College of London Institute of Global Health Innovation

Senior Advisor | Food Systems Summit Dialogues

Strategic Director | 4SD Switzerland

Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19

4SD

Website | Twitter | Facebook

Johan Rockström

Director | Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research

Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Dr Gunhild A Stordalen

Founder & Executive Chair | EAT

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

EAT Foundation

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

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Tom Rivett-Carnac:

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115. Turning Around in a Storm with David Shukman Sep 21, 2021

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Our struggle with the Climate Crisis begins with naming it, facing it, and engaging it.

Last week, the latest NDC Synthesis Report published showed that global emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030. With science screaming at the top of its lungs to get us to cut emissions 50% by 2030 to avoid catastrophic warming and climate tipping points, this 16% number says unequivocally, “we are headed in the wrong direction” as BBC Science Editor David Shukman tells us on today’s episode.

So that’s where we’re at. How do we face this moment with stubborn optimism? Tom dials up David to wrestle with the reality of how short our NDCs are of achieving the Paris Goals, and what mindset and ambition it will take to get our world’s biggest emitters to transparently confront this issue and reverse the course of rising emissions.

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Links mentioned in the episode:

NDC Synthesis Report

Climate change: UN warning over nations' climate plans - David Shukman

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Thanks to our guest this week:

David Shukman

Science Editor | BBC News

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Christiana Figueres

Tom Rivett-Carnac

Paul Dickinson

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114. 30x30: Nature Needs More with Rita El Zaghloul Sep 16, 2021

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Today, only 15 percent of land and 7 percent of our ocean are protected. Nature needs more.

The science is very clear – to prevent a mass extinction crisis, support a growing global population, and address climate change, we must conserve at least 30% of the planet by 2030.

...So why now? The science is very, very clear - If we act now we can limit the disaster, and we could even reverse the trends of climate change in an equitable, just fashion. But how?

This week we’re joined by Rita El Zaghloul, Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica. She is the driving force behind ambition at The HAC’s 30x30 campaign, slamming the pedal to the metal on their aim to agree to this plan at the COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October. The best part about it? It centers indigenous leadership and indigenous rights, while mobilizing financial resources both publicly and privately to ensure protected areas are properly managed, all the while protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030;

We know our situation is dire. But we also know it’s going to take everything (aka Nature) and everyone (aka People) to keep us below 1.5 degrees. The HAC’s 30x30 campaign is one of the roadmaps there.

Nature is counting on us. What future will we choose?

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Our Guest This Week:

Rita El Zaghloul

Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica

High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People

Website | Twitter

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Musical Guest This week:

Mr Bruce

Instagram | YouTube

You need to watch Mr Bruce’s BRAND NEW video for I Am Disaster

Sign the petition to recognize the legal status of climate refugees.

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Christiana Figueres

Tom Rivett-Carnac

Paul Dickinson

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113. Time's Up! We Need Everyone to Fight for 1.5 Sep 09, 2021

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Season 4 is here!

The past few months have been astonishing. It’s no news to anyone that climate change is here, right now. In fact, it’s reported by the Washington Post that in the US, nearly 1 in 3 people live in a county hit by a weather disaster in the past three months, and even more terrifying, 2 out of 3 live in a place that experienced a multi-day heatwave.

Time is up. We can’t squabble and scapegoat ourselves into a better future. Let’s swallow the alarm clock and take action on climate!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer - Washington Post

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Christiana Figueres

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BONUS: IPCC Report: The Tipping Point for Action with Michael E. Mann Aug 10, 2021

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We’re back in your ears for a quick bonus episode on the latest IPCC Report.

The heavily anticipated and undeniably influential release of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report’s Working Group 1 findings came out on Monday. In it, they provide an extraordinarily thorough examination into and warning of the physical science basis of climate change.

Christiana and the guys give their gut reactions to the report, and discuss how its findings are the turning point for necessary climate action at COP26. And joining us for this bonus episode to walk us through the release of this report is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Centre at Penn State University, Michael E. Mann, who has previously contributed as a lead author of the IPCC third cycle assessments.

This is the moment, there’s no going back. Thanks for listening.

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Read: The Full WG1 AR6 IPCC Report (Caution: It’s like 1000+ pages)

Much Easier Read: The Headlines from The WG1 AR6 IPCC Report (2 pages)

Watch: Check out the IPCC’s YouTube Channel

Play: The IPCC Interactive Atlas

Thank you to our guest this week, Michael E. Mann!

Michael E. Mann

Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center | Penn State University

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Check our Michael E. Mann’s latest book, ‘The New Climate War’

IPCC Social Media & links

Twitter | Instagram | Website | Facebook

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112. The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild with Enric Sala Jul 31, 2021

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This week, we take an unflinching look at the impacts of the recent extreme global weather events as they provide a grim backdrop to the G20 meeting in Naples, the informal meeting of ministers representing 51 countries in London at the weekend, and the IPCC summary report by Working Group 1. This highly anticipated report is set to provide the up-to-the-moment science on future warming and future effects of warming. It’s a big deal, especially with of COP26 right around the corner.

So, with the lack of consensus on ending fossil fuels subsidies and phasing out coal among the G20 delegates and environmental ministers in London, combined with the anticipated stark report due from the IPCC, leads us to ask: how much more devastation can we suffer before climate change is recognised for the existential threat it poses?

Our guest this week Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and founder of National Geographic Pristine Seas. He brings us the optimism on protecting our marine life, and how we can avoid mass biodiversity loss and depletion of our fish stock and prevent further catastrophes to human and natural communities, if we act now on 30x30.

And later on in the episode, join us for Elle L’s debut avant-pop track, “Hoping”.

Thanks for joining us!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Check out The Dasgupta Report that was issued to help inform governments and business leaders to account for the value of nature’s ecosystem.

Thank you to our guest this week, Enric Sala!

Enric Sala

National Geographic Explorer in Residence | National Geographic Pristine Seas

Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

National Geographic Pristine SeasWebsite | Twitter | Instagram

Go check out Enric’s latest books here

Our artist this week is Elle L!