Autumn Peltier: (14:07) Yeah, I just think empowering youth is really important and that is what we are currently doing right now. And they said like, “Yeah, but what specifically?” Because that has been so vague, but I think that now the response to the Corona crisis, the Corona tragedy, really puts that into a different perspective and it shines a light on that the climate crisis has actually never once been treated as a crisis, as an emergency. I think it’s clear in both of these remarkable films, and I really urge people to watch them, because I think that they are really rare glimpses of what it means to take on these burdens. Right? Naomi: (10:42) Naomi: (01:21) And this logic means there is no “green growth” solution here unless we reduce consumption: the approach known as “degrowth.”. China committed Tuesday to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 and peak its emissions by 2030.

That’s especially true if you find beauty or curiosity on your walk, where you notice things interesting enough to achieve what Iris Murdoch called “unselfing” — taking you out of your self-centered anxieties, even if only temporarily. Autumn Peltier: (15:00) But it’s not too late to intervene and limit the chaos. newsletter. Many of us have an inkling of this from our own experience, but we’re trapped on the treadmill of unthinking hedonic habits. But young people aren’t equally impacted by that threat in the sense that there are some young people who can’t even go to school and have the ability to drink water from the fountain. So it’s really empowering for me personally as well. But the story spread anyway.

What longer-lasting reliefs beat fleeting fun? Clean energy, for example, won’t deliver a sustainable economy by itself. Naomi: (16:26) Because like I said before, nobody should have to live that way because water is a basic human right. For some people, “the Covid-19 crisis has shown that maybe we can do things differently, that a simpler life can be more fulfilling and provide more happiness,” says Tommy Wiedmann, a professor of sustainability research at UNSW Sydney and a co-author of the Nature Communications paper. So.

Autumn, what are your reflections on this question? the second-largest source of the global rise in emissions, Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate, China’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2060, explained, On climate change, oil and gas companies have a long way to go, Scientists fear the Western wildfires could lead to long-term lung damage, What wildfires in Brazil, Siberia, and the US West have in common. This means there is no avoiding the urgent need for deep cuts in energy and material use in rich nations, especially among those countries’ richest citizens. retail therapy. Naomi: (31:02) The factors that led to that are only being exacerbated by Covid-19. We have water pounding coasts with these record breaking storms in the Gulf Coast right now. For many, an activity as simple as a walk has been their day’s treat. Millions rely on Vox’s explainers to understand an increasingly chaotic world. In 2019, she was appointed Chief Water Commissioner for the Anishinabek nation, which includes 40 First Nations across Ontario.

And I think that Nathan, the director, wanted to really portray this celebrity culture that we live in and really show how absurd it is that instead of focusing on the climate, instead of listening to the message, to the scientific message, which is clearly not getting through. To speak to prime ministers, to speak at the United Nations. The culture of endless consumption and economic growth, and also living in a perpetual now, not thinking about either the past or the future. While individual contributions to climate change may be dwarfed by the contributions of fossil fuel companies and heavy industry, individual changes can also spread by “behavioral contagion,” social tipping points, and positive feedback loops. How affluent people can end their mindless overconsumption, The hell that is remote learning, explained in a comic. Yeah. And that means choosing not to mindlessly add more grains of sand to the scale.

Autumn Peltier: (24:57) Meanwhile, the richest 1 percent of people — who made $109,000 or more per year in 2015 — alone were responsible for 15 percent of cumulative emissions, and used 9 percent of the carbon budget. Thank you so much. And you don’t have to… Because if you post next to a climate activist, you can say, “Oh yes, I care so much about the climate.” And then you don’t have to do anything. Right? In Canada, they passed a climate emergency resolution and bought a pipeline.

For instance, affluent people sometimes argue that their consumption choices don’t matter because they’re just one person on a planet of more than 7 billion. TIFF Youth For Change Interview Transcript with Greta Thunberg & Autumn Peltier, Congressional Testimony & Hearing Transcripts. In 2018, she began a lonely picket outside the Swedish Parliament calling for action on the climate crisis. And also it’s our relationship with the land and water, because also the way we look at it is as the water is the lifeblood of Mother Earth.

I’m Cameron Bailey. Naomi: (15:36) Nobody should have to go without clean drinking water.