The globally acclaimed climate podcast Outrage + Optimism is launching a new mini-series designed to nurture a culture of care.
In collaboration with Mundo Comun, a new initiative designed to nurture a culture of care, the series will shine a new light on humanity’s relationship with the rest of nature to respond to the climate crisis and transition into a regenerative future.
The three-part podcast series is hosted by Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC who oversaw the Paris Agreement negotiations and co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve, a former negotiator for Colombia and co-founder of Mundo Comun.
Guests lined up include Mexican climate justice activist Xiye Bastida, American journalist and author Krista Tippett, Nigerian trans-public intellectual Bayo Akomolafe, British author Kate Raworth and Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar.
They will discuss stories of our separation from nature, origin stories, stories of the food we consume, the energy we use, our economic system and ultimately the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
Christiana Figueres says: “Conserving and regenerating nature is integral to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, but ‘nature’ is still seen as second in line to more technical solutions like renewable energy and electric vehicles. We see it as something other, outside ourselves, a ‘thing’ that can be controlled – in the best of cases, ‘sustainably managed’ for the benefit of human survival.”
As well as the new deep dive on nature, season nine of Outrage + Optimism will feature issues of our times through a climate lens. From a year of elections and reflections on the state of democracy across the globe, the COP in Azerbaijan and how to live a good life during challenging times.
The special mini-series of Outrage + Optimism will be available from 8 February.
