Climate Stories That Can Bridge Political Divides | A Brief History of the Future

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Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe advocates for more inclusive narratives around climate action, emphasizing the importance of storytelling in bridging political divides and fostering empathy among people. By shifting from a linear economy to a circular one, a new story about sustainability and prosperity emerges. Ellen MacArthur advocates for a new story, a more sustainable, circular economy model.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
Combining history, science, and unexpected storytelling to expand our understanding about the impact that the choices we make today will have on our tomorrows. Each episode follows those who are working to solve our greatest challenges. The series also features valuable insights from a wide range of thinkers, scientists, developers and storytellers including French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur, musician Grimes, architect Bjarke Ingels, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, legendary soccer player Kylian Mbappé, and more.

[@mafarmerga]

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding

[@daniel51020]

InterfaceFLOR was and is a pioneer in circular economy business. Let's hope these kinds of pioneers will become the norm, globally.

[@TuaTagovailoaTouchdowns]

People used to wonder about global famine leading into the early 1900s, before one of the great revolutions in industrial farming. The transformative power of induced innovation and modernizing technology cannot be taken for granted.

[@janelangley3287]

Linear economy, fascinating

[@farsalami8605]

Why are you fascinated... we do know this for 1000's of years. This is just an ad lol

[@steveshea9448]

Let's imagine for a moment what parties profiting from the linear economy might say about the circular economy idea. The first interviewee's story about the studio technician's out-of-hand rejection of liberal solutions to climate crisis is informative. Once something has a label, it can be limited, defined, and rejected. That's how conservatives learned to reject conservation. Remember also the still-occurring and now almost normalized demonization of the idea of a 15-minute city. Where I live, the housing closest to the commercial part of town is the most expensive because so many of us want to be able to walk from home to restaurants, shops, and parks. This indicates that we vote with our dollars for the 15-minute city, but somehow at the same time (many) fear the concept as a loss of freedom. I think this was the idea at the start of the video, that control of the narrative will determine public acceptance. The latter half of the video seemed to lose that thread, but I was very happy to learn about circular economics, a term new to me even though I remember learning decades ago that German appliance manufacturers owned the materials used in their products, and were responsible for them, so they collected broken appliances and reused (what they could of) the materials. Great idea, and I hope in not too long American conservatives will be accepting this as a sensible idea so that we can get on with living on the planet instead of killing ourselves (and everything else but the cockroaches) off.

[@philrabe910]

I guess I was in my 20's when I realized that 2% growth in the US in perpetuity would mean running out of resources at some very predictable time in the future when we would be reduced to eating people (Soylent Green).

[@Maximoootom]

Tell the stories to the deniers.

[@krobbins8395]

Thanks I got to a place with climate myself that started to see a more circular economy . I think it is more faithful existance essentially since it comes with the outlook that everything has been provided and renews itself as nature intended. Once established it leads to abundance, peace and more happiness and free time....its just getting there.

[@mafarmerga]

For four years I have been keeping careful records for my PHEV. Combined 'fuel' cost (electricity plus gasoline) works out to $0.018 per mile. Less than 2 cents per mile. Calculate the same for your current vehicle and let me know if you even come close to that. Don't care about the environment? Fine. Care about how much it costs to operate your car??? Not a political choice.

[@ronkirk5099]

In the effort to mitigate global warming and save the planet, we lost 8 years during W. Bush's administration ("it will hurt the economy") and 4 years during TFG's administration ("it is a hoax"), 12 years we could ill afford. In the U.S. this isn't an issue of bi-partisanship because one side is 'business as usual' and the other side is for 'protecting the environment for future generations'.

[@BicycleFunk]

A privileged person forcing themselves to endure what billions of humans do around the world already experience and then coming to the same conclusion and then presenting that to the world is an obnoxious concept. Especially when the final conclusions is that for finite resources you need a finite population.