How To Be Happy At The End Of The World

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How To Be Happy At The End Of The World #5

Hey fellow Pathfinders, it’s Rob with another way to be happy at the end of the world. In this one I’m going to hit you with something hard (sorry) and then I’m going to make it feel better than ever, so trust me and stick around to the end. Here goes… This civilisation is finished. And that’s OK. Because in our blood are the memories of our ancestors who have survived ice ages, floods, famine, war, pestilence and every horror imaginable. We wouldn’t be here if they hadn’t. We’ve done this all b...

Jun 30, 2022•9 min

How to Be Happy At The End Of The World #4

Welcome to Part 4 of the How To Be Happy At The End Of The World series. In this instalment I’d like to share something I’ve just submitted to Adbusters magazine. I want to share it with you as well because it brings together a lot of the ideas I’ve been writing about on my Substack and in the podcast and I thought you might enjoy it. It’s a lot more poetic than normal and is usually the sort of thing I write in my journal but never share so I thought for that very reason I should start sharing ...

Jun 17, 2022•10 min

Why We Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Why won’t we solve the climate crisis? Because the climate is not the problem - we are. Our worldview, the way we interpret the world and each other, what Herman Daly calls our ‘pre-analytic vision’, or what other’s refer to as our paradigm or our culture -that’s the problem. Our current crises serve to show us that our whole way of understanding our shared reality is faulty. This understanding is foundational to our entire civilisation and has been for thousands of years. Which is what makes th...

May 23, 2022

#1 How To Be Happy At The End Of The World

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking with activists and changemakers about the future of the environmental movement and one thing that keeps coming up again and again is spirituality. I think it is because the heaviness of the current existential situation causes us to suffer internally. And while it is important to take action in the world, we often forget that it all starts inside us in our thoughts and emotional lives. So now, more than ever, I’m looking for ways to be happy, even ...

May 17, 2022•16 min

Eco-Anxiety, Youth Activism & The Future Of The Environmental Movement with Verel Rodrigues

In this episode I speak with Verel Rodrigues about eco-anxiety, youth activism and the future of the environmental movement. As the conversations on this podcast have progressed I’m now of a mind to give more attention to eco-anxiety and a growing feature of future episodes will be to explore ways to be happy, even against a backdrop such as the one we are currently experiencing. I want to give voice to how our situation is making many people feel (especially but not exclusively young people) an...

May 12, 2022•1 hr 15 min

Why The End of Civilisation Might Just Be The Beginning Of A Better One - With Prof. Tim Lenton

Hands down one of the best conversations I’ve ever had on the topic of life, climate and ecological collapse and the future of the planet with one of the world’s most eminent Earth systems scientists (or Gaia scholars as they should also be known), this episode is not to be missed. This felt like therapy as I asked all the questions I’ve ever had about the climate crisis and the future of life on earth. How screwed are we? Why is there such inaction from governments? What can we do? Where are we...

Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 23 min

Ep. 4 The Problem With Plastic Is Bigger Than You Think

In Episode 4 of The Pathfinders Collective podcast, I met with Ben Jack, Director of Common Seas - an organisation on a mission to tackle plastic pollution. This is another area where the reality of the situation is often under reported so I wanted to find out more about where we really are in order to better engage with possible solutions. Ben is a font of knowledge on the whole plastic pipeline from production to waste and everything in between. Common Seas do amazing work in policy developmen...

Mar 02, 2022•41 min

Carbon Budgets, Climate Change & An Ecological Economy with Prof Pierre Friedlingstein

Welcome to Episode 3 of The Pathfinders Collective Podcast. In this episode I meet with Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, a world leading climate scientist and the lead author of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment report. Fresh from being at COP26 in Glasgow, Pierre spoke to me about: - Carbon budgets - The problem with economic growth - Protest and civil disobedience - What a post-fossil fuel economy might look like - How a 1.7 - 1.8C degree warmer world is actually an optimistic target - As well as discussin...

Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 12 min

Shifting Paradigms, Nurturing Courage for Global Change and What It Means To Be A Pathfinder

In this episode of The Pathfinders Collective I sit down with Alex Rahir to answer his questions about The Pathfinders Collective - what it is for, why it exists, and what it seeks to achieve. We cover emerging economic paradigms, theories of change that suggest we can’t have social transformation without personal transformation, eco-anxiety, climate grief, entrepreneurship and regeneration. We tackle and address limiting beliefs that delay action, we identify why it’s actually more painful for ...

Nov 02, 2021•50 min

Climate Change, Blockchain and Sustainable Finance

Episode 1 of The Pathfinders Collective podcast is with Dr Pedro Baiz entrepreneur and data scientist at the Blockchain and Climate Institute, Imperial College London and also holds several CTO and Founder roles in data science focused startups and scale-ups. We discuss disrupting business as usual through sustainable FinTech, how blockchain is revolutionising everything from pensions to global corporations and how the emergence of a new, decentralised economy and financial system has the power ...

Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 21 min

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