The Stubborn Optimist's Guide Revisited — with Christiana Figueres (Rerun)

[This episode originally aired May 21, 2020]
Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change
Christiana Figueres argues that the battle against global threats
like climate change begins in our own heads. She became the
United Nations’ top climate official, after she had watched the
2009 Copenhagen climate summit collapse “in blood, in screams, in
tears.” In the wake of that debacle, Christiana began performing
an act of emotional Aikido on herself, her team, and eventually
delegates from 196 nations. She called it “stubborn optimism.” It
requires a clear and alluring vision of a future that can
supplant the dystopian and discouraging vision of what will
happen if the world fails to act. It was stubborn optimism, she
says, that convinced those nations to sign the first global
climate framework, the Paris Agreement. In this episode, we
explore how a similar shift in Silicon Valley’s vision could lead
3 billion people to take action for the planet.