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Monocle 24: Meet the Writers
"echoing zaidi" Discussed on Monocle 24: Meet the Writers
"I also think perhaps it's important in finding different sources of of of meaning and purpose. i mean just. It's interesting one of the take sarah photo. One of the set of ideas in the book is the the papal encyclical released by the vatican by pipe francis about four or five years ago and not myself personally christian faith but i think there's a good deal of wisdom in that document and it concludes by saying that One of the different perspectives. One of the different sets of values. We need to think about is Apps a way of life that places a little more emphasis on caring for the places we live and a little less on the acquisition and consumption. How do we stop managing eko anxiety. I as you say this this recent. Ipc report has really highlighted that we are in the midst of this crisis and we only have to look at the fire raging across europe and in california and so on to genuinely feel frightened for our future. That's not particularly helpful. No i mean. It's understandable. I think i certainly talked to many friends and colleagues and particularly students and younger people talk about the deep distress when i see see the fires and floods around the world and they think about the future so i think increasingly these concepts of these feelings of climate grief. Echoing zaidi The concerns that people talk about. And i really respect the. The work of psychologists and health workers who have identify range of pepsi will golden coping strategies for dealing with immediate climate greif. And that that's most of all includes the the skill the art of on the one hand balancing our commitment to urgent action With an away in each of us kant alone solve such a vast and complex problem on. They'll talk about staying well informed while not being overwhelmed by social media in the twenty four seven news cycle and of course not being isolated and being able to share the concerns with trusted friends. And that's all important. And i think those immediate strategies for dealing with climate grief are important and we all drawer on various mechanisms. But i think this is. The book tries to build on that foundation because as the full extent and duration of the climate crisis becomes clearer. I really think that we need to not just focus on short-term emotional coping mechanisms but rohrer ideas about meaning and direction. And that's why. I've came to explore these logic questions of how do we navigate an increasingly halt and harsh climate world. And how do we have difficult. Conversations with people about particularly climate deniers Well as with any effective conversation. I guess the would. Respect is important and respectfully so i- pep back two points here. I think there's a lot of research. Of course that shows that There's a spectrum of views about climate change ranging from people who completely committed to Emergency speed action at the one extreme and people who are completely committed to denial the other. I must say in terms of focusing political I think i'd be cain to focus on people who are at least open to the idea. That action is required. So i think that's the first point. But i also think it comes back to my point about the example of working with call dependent communities in australia. I think you really got to begin by listening carefully to the the concerns. People have very real concerns about you. Know their livelihoods and and They families and the future employment. So that's not without anyway backing away from understanding and respecting the science. I think we need to find ways of working carefully and respectfully with people..
TED Talks Daily
"echoing zaidi" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Moving and reinvent the wheel with a hybrid. You can do both. That's manufacturers are going hybrid with ibm with watson on a hybrid cloud factories can use a. I automate the little things. So they can focus on the next big thing. Businesses that want to innovate. It still are going with a smarter. Hybrid cloud using the technology and expertise of ibm. The world is going hybrid with ibm. Visit ibm dot com slash hybrid cloud. I grew up in australia's trump north queensland fishing frogs from the toilet and dodging snakes that hung from the ceiling wedding down old see tuttle stranded at low tide outside our house. I spent more time outside than in delighting in the of nature by age eleven. I wasn't allowed to watch her films. So a ton to documentaries instead the cove food inc an inconvenient truth. The first time i experienced hot break was when i sat glued to my computer screen. Staring at mass dolphin hunts that turned to the shoreline red staring as million-year-old were bulldozed to produce big macs staring as al gore projected graphs. That showed how quickly we were devouring off and how good we were at pretending. Otherwise the second time i experienced hot break was in november of twenty nineteen as i watched my country go up in flames. As one billion animals were incinerated by the funner as friends tried to rescue their homes poised on tin roofs armed with hoses until the smoke and embers clung to their clothes. I felt despair grief frustration fury and staring at that wall of fire higher and more ferocious than any i'd seen before i felt helpless. Small powerless to stop the flames powerless to protect the place. I love australia's black summer was soon followed by the firestorm. In california as their summer rolled around as well as flooding in jakarta that displaced one hundred thousand people more violent hurricanes along the east coast of america and biblical plagues of locusts that threaten the food supply for millions of people in east africa. Young people today have not created this reality. We've inherited yet. We're told where the loss generation with a chance to save the fate of humanity. Is it any wonder that there is an epidemic of mental health problems. Echoing zaidi is on the rise and young people seem to be some of the west affected research from twenty nine teen showed that in the uk. Seventy percent of eighteen to twenty four year olds were feeling echo anxious feeling helpless grief panic insomnia even guilt around climate change. Environmental disaster is the biggest mental health issue about our lifetimes and our war against nature young minds of the collateral damage at myron organization force of nature. We've witnessed the same on a global scale. We've been talking to students in over fifty countries from tel aviv through jakarta new york managua. All of them have shared this existential dread that keeps them up at night dread not only fueled by doom scrolling but by the belief that adults especially adults in power. Do not care when. I discovered documentaries. I decided the weld was run by people who were selfish and greedy that the rest of society didn't care that we humans were a plague on our planet. I've since spent the past ten years loving decision makers across business policy in civil society working with students in the classroom and chief executives in the boardroom. And i can tell you that. My bleak outlook while in some ways right was in more ways berry very wrong. Picturing herself as a senior executive at a big multinational in twenty five years. You've been climbing. The corporate ladder. Told your job is to make money. A maintain the status quo to deliver value to shareholders to avoid the kinds of risks. That could cost you your job. You recycle you. Share climate change articles on lincoln. You even went vegetarian. Two years ago after watching a documentary on mass foaming yet when you come home at the end of the day you get the sense that your kids see you as the problem. They wish you were the climate change. Protester gluing themselves to the gloss tower. Note the past in sat inside the building. When i first started working with people in power i was surprised to realize that they often felt the least powerful of ole and moist. These leaders perform mental gymnastics to get away from those uncomfortable feelings. Young people today are fooling into despair while the adults in our lives are making sense of the situation through denial. When i asked leaders to describe the future they envision it's something of techno utopia flying cars in weld where deadly diseases are radically. Aided yet when i ask eight nine year olds in the classroom the same question. The future they describe is a dystopia in blockbuster. Empty supermarket shelves cities underwater. The kind of place. No one wants to find waiting for them when they grow up. You might find comfort in. Denial numbing yourself to our hyper consumptive. Culture sleep woking even though the science tells us that we're huddling toward the cliff. You might feel despair like so many of my generation because while feelings of anxiety frustration. Anger can wake us up to the issues. They can crush us if we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. Neither despair nor denial help anyone. They caused us to shut down to remove ourselves from the picture. Denial a race is our responsibility. Despair lumps us with all of it. The story of denial sound something like it's not up to me because someone else will fix it. The story of despair sounds like it's not up to me because it's too big to fix do here the similarity despair and denial might appear to exist on polar ends of.