S5 E11: Change Everything

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make — in the West, and the U.S. in particular — to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other? Episode 11 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Researched and produced by John Biewen, with co-host Amy Westervelt. Script editor, Cheryl Devall. Interviews with Dirk Philipsen, Christian Felber, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, and Jessica Hernandez. Music by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, Fabian Almazan, and Alex Weston. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

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0:00.0	Season 5 is made possible in part by listeners who have supported our show and by a grant
0:11.6	from the International Women's Media Foundation.
0:16.9	When it comes to big changes in society's Aimee, you know, the kind that shift epochs,
0:23.8	most of us go about our lives assuming they won't happen.
0:26.8	Yeah, I think that's true, but they do happen.
0:31.6	Not often, of course, by definition, we don't have a new epoch every year or two, but for
0:37.4	lots of reasons, it feels very likely that we're on the edge of dramatic change one way or
0:44.3	another.
0:45.3	Just think about what Max Berger said in our last episode about politics in the US.
0:50.3	If you just were step back and look at the US as a country, it would be very clear, you
0:55.7	know, the current constitutional arrangement is not long for this world.
1:00.4	We are in real danger of tipping into full fledged one party rule and possibly fascist authoritarianism.
1:09.0	One of our two major political parties is more or less united in trying to take us there.
1:14.6	But at the same time, it seems like there's energy building on the other side, unlike
1:19.4	anything we've seen in a long time.
1:21.9	People demanding radical change in the direction of more democracy and a much more just and
1:27.6	equal society.
1:29.9	It feels like politically the US is just like on a knife's edge.
1:34.9	Yeah, it really does.
1:37.7	And then the other freight train coming through the tunnel, of course, with even more inevitability
1:42.4	is the climate emergency.
1:44.9	The way I think about it, we can either have planned change or an ambush.
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