Me vs We: What Matters Most for Climate Action?

Published: March 20, 2020, 5:29 a.m.

b"Addressing the climate challenge requires incremental and transformational change on both personal and systemic levels. That means altering our personal habits as citizens, consumers, employees and parents. At the same time, society needs to fundamentally modernize the food, transportation, building and energy systems. That mind-blowing amount of change is so daunting, it\\u2019s no wonder people want to skip away into the happy land of denial. How should we think about change \\u2014 and how do our words shape our behavior? Where does change really begin? \\n\\nVisit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode.\\n\\nGuests: \\nGeorge Lakoff, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UC Berkeley\\nAmanda Ravenhill, Executive Director, The Buckminster Fuller Institute\\nMargaret Klein Salamon, Founder and Executive Director, The Climate Mobilization\\n\\nAdditional interviews:\\nJonah Gottlieb, Student and Director of Schools for Climate Action\\n\\nThis program was recorded at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on February 26, 2020.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"