"We understand that we have to decrease our fossil fuel dependence and usage, our combustion really of coal, gas, and oil by 45-50% by 2030, and again in 2040, and then really zero out by 2050. But we kind of think that if we do that, we get a hall pass to the 22nd century. And it's not true because we have to look at where we are consuming that. What are we doing with it? Why are we combusting it at all?
We have to step back and look at the fact that we could be zero emissions today. In other words, we could have no more fossil fuels, but the way we're acting, the way we are producing, the way we are interacting with the environment, is destroying life on Earth."
-- Paul Hawken, Ep 65: Regeneration in the Climate Movement, What Could Possibly Go Right?
Listen/more information: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-07/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-65-paul-hawken/
Episode 58 with John de Graaf
New episode of What Could Possibly Go Right? is live! This week, Vicki welcomes John de Graaf -- author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, speaker, and activist "with a mission to help create a happy, health, and sustainable quality of life for America."
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John addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
That beauty in nature and the built environment can be a uniter in our polarized communities.
That greening local neighborhoods can have broader positive implications, like reducing violence and having a healing influence.
That experiments in increasing vacation time or introducing four day workweeks can make workers healthier, happier and more productive.
That movements towards simplicity, sustainable living and getting outdoors has been boosted during the pandemic.
Episode 57 with Sky Nelson-Isaacs
New episode of What Could Possibly Go Right? is live!
#57 Sky Nelson-Isaacs: Synchronicity, Wholeness, and Vulnerable Connection
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Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physics educator, speaker, author, and musician. He brings together the connection between synchronicity, physics, and real-life using research and original ideas. An educator with nine years of classroom experience, with experience in the industry as a software engineer, Nelson-Isaacs is also a multi-instrumentalist and professional performer of award-winning original musical compositions.
He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
- The importance of wholeness in synchronicity; “from the whole, we get solutions from unexpected places.”
- The need for “a certain mindset of openness and receptivity” to see opportunities through the noise.
- The understanding that many of our “systems entice us, not towards wholeness, but towards separateness”.
- The value of vulnerability in creating connection; “If I sit with you, and you have a different view from me, and I want to understand and expand my view, I have to sit with insecurity and uncertainty.”
POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival Q&A
POWER: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival, my newest book, is now available in bookstores everywhere. I'll be answering questions from viewers and sharing inspirations for the material.
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Episode 54 with Roman Krznaric and Kate Raworth
What Could Possibly Go Right? is back this week with our host Vicki Robin interviewing Kate Raworth, co-founder of Doughnut Economics, and Roman Krznaric, public philosopher and author!
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Together, they address the one core question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
-That Doughnut Economics offers a model to “meet the needs of all people within the means of the Living Planet”.
-That “one of the ways that the world changes is through empathy”, which can overcome our social divides.
-That we need to be good ancestors and “step into the shoes of people in tomorrow's world as citizens of the future.”
-That recognizing and respecting boundaries is good for our own and the planet’s health, while also being a means to unleash our creativity.
Episode 51 with Dany Sigwalt
New episode of What Could Possibly Go Right? is now live!
#51 Dany Sigwalt: Youth at the Forefront of Social Movements
Dany Sigwalt, Executive Director at Power Shift Network, has spent much of her career moving between movement building and youth leadership development, working to marry the two into one cohesive strategic reality. She cut her organizing teeth providing solidarity childcare for housing rights advocates in DC, fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the Occupy DC movement.
She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:
-The legacy of Black feminists in identifying language and providing analysis of the intersectionalities in systems causing harm
-That “young folks have always been at the forefront of social movements”, understanding that they’ll live the longest in whatever reality we build, while also having had “less time to be indoctrinated”
-The benefits of policies that have impacts across different issue areas, such as the Green New Deal
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