What if we get climate change right?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Climate change has become synonymous with doomsday, as though everyone is waiting for the worst to happen. But what is this mindset doing to us? Is climate anxiety keeping us from confronting the challenge? Ayana Elizabeth Johnson thinks so. In part two of our “Reasons to Be Cheerful” series, she talks to Sean Illing about her new book, What If We Get It Right? and makes the case that our best chance for survival is acting as though the future is a place in which we want to live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.0	If I asked you to tell me the one issue that makes you feel the most pessimistic, what would it be? be climate change.
0:54.0	I feel pretty confident saying that the most popular response,
0:57.0	certainly one of the most popular responses,
1:00.0	would be climate change.
1:04.0	But as climate change. But is climate despair really as tempting and reasonable as it seems?
1:10.0	The problem isn't imaginary.
1:12.0	Climate change is real and terrifying.
1:15.4	But even if it's as bad as the worst predictions suggest,
1:19.4	do we gain anything by resigning ourselves to that fate.
1:25.0	What effect might our despair have on our ability to act in the present?
1:30.0	More to the point, is our fatalism undercutting our capacity to tackle this problem.
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