Olive Shoot

In this episode, I highlight the voices of the people for peace at COP26, the UN conference on climate change. There’s not much that I can add to the powerful convictions of Te Maia Wiki, Benoit Musabyimana, Yaz Ashmawi, and Sarah Halvorson. I’m truly blown away by their perspectives. Through this episode, I hope I can give you a little glimpse into both the frustration and the hope that was present in Glasgow over these past two weeks.

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The UN conference on climate change, COP26, begins this week and Filipino youth climate activist Marinel Ubaldo will be there on the ground in Glasgow advocating for climate justice for her home community and beyond. In this episode, I talk with Marinel about her experience as a survivor of the world’s largest hurricane, Super Typhoon Haiyan, how that disaster has shaped her community at home and her activism around the world, and her ethic of global climate justice. Don’t forget to follow Marinel @mrnlsmkbld over the next two weeks as history is made in Glasgow.

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Climate change is an issue of enormous scale, but how does it affect us and our ability to find peace at an individual level? In this episode, I talk with my good friend, Kate Flanagan about her experience of environmental loss and climate grief. Then, I break it down from grief to solastalgia with Dr. Dorothy Boorse, professor of Biology at Gordon College. In the midst of an overwhelming world, how do we work towards the peaceful processes of healing and care?

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One of the biggest challenges to finding hope in the fight against climate change is the severity and breadth of the crisis before us. In this episode, we tackle one of the most terrifying risks of climate change head-on: conflict. Join Elsa as she talks with Dr. Patrick Regan, former Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Hon. Sherri Goodman, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense in Environmental Security, and Lidya Abreha, Notre Dame Student who calls Ethiopia her home. Even with the severity of the threats, we still might get our first glimpse of hope.

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Olive Shoot is a series by Elsa Barron that seeks to answer the difficult question: how do we find hope in the midst of the climate crisis? It does so through an examination of different lenses and angles of environmental peacebuilding, illustrated by expert opinions and stories from around the world. By the end of the series, we’ll grasp hold of some of the first shoots of hope: an olive branch to extend to our ecosystems and to each other.

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