Climate debates are going nowhere. Highly ideological, they end in gridlock more often than solutions. And younger generations, long worried about living on a warming planet, are moving from anxiety to frustration, feeling like they’re left with all the problems but no decision-making power. The world needs a new approach. What new climate narratives, and which media messengers, will bring us together to effect progress across politics, state lines, national borders, and vast oceans?

Featured guests:

Carlos Curbelo (Former Florida U.S. Representative)

Heela Rasool-Ayub (Director, Planetary Politics at New America)

Kate Yoder (Senior Staff Writer, Grist)

Moderated by Uwe Jean Heuser (Journalist and 2026 Thomas Mann Fellow)

This program is co-presented by Thomas Mann House and Zócalo Public Square, in partnership with ASU Global Futures Laboratory and Palisadian-Post.

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