One hundred years

Terry White and Neil Barrett are old friends and have a hundred years of climate action between them. They speak with Rob Law about the long game of climate advocacy and what gives them hope about the future.

Rob’s notes:

I often feel lucky that I have worked on climate change for nearly 2 decades in jobs that have given me a strong sense of agency – that feeling that I am doing all I can to steer the world away from the dystopian trajectory we are all hurtling down. The enormity of climate change is overwhelming to say the least, and that individual sense of futility and hopelessness is always there to quell and doubt. What does it mean to have hope though? Hope is complicated, and can trick us into doing nothing or placing our hope in someone else sorting things out.

Lately I have been struck at how many people around me are staring into their fears, acknowledging the underlying anxiety and finding a way to become more involved in collective climate action. In developing End Game, Kyla and I have been able to explore many recurring themes from those we meet and talk to. One theme is that being involved in local collective action is a much more powerful source of hope than individual action, offering the perfect antidote to feelings of futility and hopelessness. It means breaking through comfort zones, challenging the way you think, coping with more losses than wins, but ultimately it can bring a unique peace and joy from troubled times.

We all have our niche, our role to play, our skills to provide, whether we are new to this space or many decades in. How do we create more space for more people to find their own way to step into creating a better world? Because none of us really know what we are doing, we can only fumble our way through.

Credits
co-Produced by Kyla Brettle and Rob Law
Sound Design by Kyla Brettle
Music by Rob Law

Featuring
Terry White, Neil Barrett,

Other Recording
Town Hall Meeting courtesy of Twofold Media

Licence
CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)

Distribution
Jan 19, 2021 “S3E14 Endgame” on Saltgrass & Saltgrass Podcast with Allie Hanly on MAINFM and Podbean (episode includes Allie’s interview with Kyla and Rob)

Links
Rob Law’s music
Twofold Media

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