When We Are with Alex Steffen
When We Are with Alex Steffen
Podcast Description
The climate crisis is no longer something happening to other people, somewhere else. It's changing all our lives, right now. Few of us are ready.
Join renowned climate futurist Alex Steffen and guests as we show the patterns behind the chaos, learn how to build smart climate strategies, and laugh at the absurdity of daily life in discontinuous times. alexsteffen.substack.com
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on various themes surrounding the climate crisis; it delves into topics such as personal ruggedization, optimistic climate responses, and the societal impacts of environmental change. Examples of specific episodes include discussions on when to relocate due to climate factors and the outdated concepts of natural disaster in the current context, promoting new ways of thinking effectively.
The climate crisis is no longer something happening to other people, somewhere else. It’s changing all our lives, right now. Few of us are ready.
Join renowned climate futurist Alex Steffen and guests as we show the patterns behind the chaos, learn how to build smart climate strategies, and laugh at the absurdity of daily life in discontinuous times.
In my last podcast, I laid out why our horizons of concern are so important.
In particular, I talked about how having kids (or grandkids or nieces and nephews, or chosen family, or whatever) makes us care about events that many still consider far off in the future… but that will be within their lifetimes.
Having a longer decision horizon means planning for a wildly different world, and doing our best to set these young people up for success.
But what if you are the young person? What if you’re just getting a start in life? How can you find a path that will lead you into a better life, even in this harder future?
I don’t have a one-size-fits-all answer, unfortunately. There’s no formula that spits out the optimal personal climate plan.
What this podcast does offer is a short list of insights that might help you answer these questions for yourself.
If you want to delve more deeply into the ideas I discuss, you might find these links helpful:
Old thinking will break your brain.
The biggest error of my working life (so far).
Letting Go of Everything We Expected
Please feel free to share this one with anyone in your life who you think might benefit.
Alex
– The Guardian covered my work recently, in a piece titled, “‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday.”
– Find me on Bluesky.
– I’ve spoken with the media hundreds of times. I was featured in a NY Times Magazine piece, “This Isn’t the California I Married.” My writing was the jumping-off point for an episode of This American Life titled Unprepared for What Has Already Happened, as well as the podcasts Without; The Big Story; Everybody In the Pool and 99% Invisible’s Not Built for This series.
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