TED Radio Hour

Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action

I was thinking how it's kind of a bummer that my life's work on happiness had no bearing whatsoever on what I believe is the most important existential challenge of our time. Then I started thinking about biking. So I bike to work because I arrive in a much better mood than if I drive my car. But of course, biking is also one of the most sustainable forms of transportation. And then it kind of dawned on me that in fact, so many of the things that we need to do as individuals and as societies in order to tackle climate change are also good for our happiness.

TED Radio Hour

Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action

I was biking to work. It was a sunny autumn day. I was enjoying my bike ride, but I was also thinking about climate change, as you do. And I was thinking how it's kind of a bummer that my life's work on happiness had no bearing whatsoever on what I believe is the most important existential challenge of our time.

TED Radio Hour

Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action

I would call the 2010s maybe the doom and gloom era of climate change communication. And the thing is that it got people's attention. So I think the focus on kind of scaring people and talking about how, you know, awful everything was made people sit up and listen for a period of time. But the problem is doom and gloom messaging doesn't necessarily motivate action.

TED Radio Hour

Less guilt, more joy: A new chapter for climate action

I think I would call the 2010s maybe the doom and gloom era of climate change communication. And the thing is that it got people's attention. So I think the focus on kind of scaring people and talking about how awful everything was made people sit up and listen for a period of time. But the problem is doom and gloom messaging doesn't necessarily motivate action.

The Prof G Pod

Why the Climate-Doom Story Is Wrong — Hannah Ritchie

The climate impacts scale with the the the temperature rise we experience, which kind of means there's no point at which we should just give up, right? Because the hazards at 1.7 are better than they are at two. And if we go past two, then it's worth trying to stay below 2.3 rather than 2.5.

TED

Our Last, Best Chance to Cool the Earth | Bill McKibben | TED

Sure, in 40 years we will run the planet on sun and wind because it's cheap, but if it takes us anything like 40 years to get there, then the planet we run on sun and wind will be a broken planet.

It's Been a Minute

This summer's hottest trend? Monoculture. | It's Been a Minute

But if we're all in this together for the good, we're definitely all in this together for the bad. Heat waves, wildfire smog, explosive diarrhea, political minations between the US and FIFA. I can't help but wonder, are we the drama?

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over-suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED

The Case for Making Art in a Crisis | Yiyun Kang | TED

We can feel a paper cut, but we cannot feel a collapsing planet. We're drowning in information but starving for meaning. The chain of understanding is broken, leaving our crisis so cold and abstract.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

The New York Times

Welcome to the Neighborhood. It’s Sinking.

You're fighting nature, and what we see is that nature is changing with climate change and maybe more rainfall occurring in the future.