Worth Repeating: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
10/20/22
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Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but climate change is not. The planet has warmed and cooled in the past, even during mankind’s time. What can we learn from those events that might help us cope with the extremes that are our present and future? Can indigenous people who understand nature differently than most of us teach us how to cope with today’s terrifying challenges?
Our guest on this week’s New Thinking for a New World podcast, Tero Mustonen, is a climate scholar who combines indigenous knowledge with academic research. He is also a leader of the SnowChange Cooperative that works with indigenous people and climate issues throughout the Arctic, and currently the head of his town of Selkie in North Karelia, Finland.
Listen to his insights on how to promote positive change on a damaged planet.
This episode was originally published on September 23, 2021.
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