Outrage + Optimism

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A new podcast about living with optimism in a time of change.

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101. A Fund for the Earth w...

05.13.2021

This week, the Nature Agenda. A forest the size of France has regrown since 2000 and The Biden administration introduced its “America the Beautiful” plan. In it, they plan to conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and water by ...

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05.13.2021 101. A Fund for the Earth with Andrew Steer This week, the Nature Agenda. A forest the size of France has regrown since 2000 and The Biden administration introduced its “America the Beautiful” plan. In it, they plan to conserve 30 percent of the nation’s land and water by ...
05.07.2021 BONUS: Outrage + Optimism is 100 Episodes Strong! with Christiana, Tom and Paul Outrage + Optimism is celebrating 100 episodes! In this episode, we reminisce about our humble beginnings as a podcast and celebrate some memories made along the way. Not only are we celebrating 100 episodes but we also are turning 2 ...
05.06.2021 100. Financing The Race to Zero! Welcome to the third episode of our Race To Zero series! In this episode, we show you the money. Finance is an absolutely crucial factor in accelerating our world towards a Net-Zero future, and with less than 9 years left ...
04.29.2021 99. Hope Is a Verb with Fred Krupp With the Biden U.S. Climate Summit barely in the rearview mirror, our hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson unpack what this moment means for global leadership, ambition, and the gaps in the road ahead for the climate movement. ...
04.22.2021 98. 100% Outrage and 100% Optimism with John Kerry Happy 51st Earth Day, everyone! Today marks the first U.S. Earth Day Summit convened by President Joe Biden with the aim to strengthen climate ambition among invited world leaders ahead of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in November. And while ...
04.15.2021 97. Jojo Mehta on Ecocide and Ending Impunity With France banning short haul flights, John Kerry on his way to China and South Korea to talk climate just days ahead of The US Climate Summit, and The American Legislative Exchange Council (not so) secretly planning to fight Biden ...
04.08.2021 96. Climate Action Is the Adventure of Our Lives with Bertrand Piccard and Dee Caffari This week, the climate solutions are here, and they’re neatly labeled. You may have heard of Bertrand Piccard, the explorer, balloonist, and ‘inspioneer’ who was the first to circumnavigate the globe in a solar powered aircraft in 2016. Well, since ...
04.01.2021 BONUS: The Stubborn Optimist's Playlist Vol. 2 Welcome to Volume 2 of The Stubborn Optimist’s Playlist! Every week on the podcast we feature a musical artist who is thoughtful about the role of art and artists in the climate crisis. This week we bring you a collection ...
04.01.2021 95. Sounds of Action! The Stubborn Optimist's Playlist Vol. 1 Welcome to the very first Volume of The Stubborn Optimist’s Playlist! Every week on the podcast we feature an artist who is thoughtful about the role of art and artists in the climate crisis. This week, we celebrate all the ...
03.25.2021 94. The Risk of Living Under a White Sky with Elizabeth Kolbert With CO2 in the atmosphere now reaching levels 50% higher than when humanity began large-scale burning of fossil fuels during the industrial revolution, time is running out and some ecosystems are on the brink of collapse. In light of this, ...
03.22.2021 BONUS: What The Hale Does This Mean? with Thomas Hale: Net Zero Goals A bonus episode for you this week! With science demanding that in order to stay below 1.5C we must reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the absolute latest, how do we get there? We know we can’t ...
03.18.2021 93. The Race To Zero! Extreme Electrification with Nico Rosberg and Sara Price This is the second episode in our Race To Zero series! All evidence points to the tipping point for electrification of road transport, and the end of the internal combustion engine. But will this happen fast enough? One of the ...
03.11.2021 92. Vicki Hollub Thinks Oil Has a (Low Carbon) Future This week we get into Republicans and climate change, faith and climate change, and some exciting news in climate philanthropy! And our guest for this episode is President & CEO of Occidental Petroleum, Vicki Hollub. Not only is she the ...
03.05.2021 91. The Race to Zero! Road to COP26 Welcome to the first episode of our new Race To Zero series! With COP26 as the vital milestone for climate action in November 2021, the promises and pledges made by governments must be converted into meaningful action beginning today. We ...
02.25.2021 90. Ferocious Love with Katharine Wilkinson With a deep freeze in Texas leaving a wake of devastation, a UN Security Council Meeting weakly addressing climate change as the planet’s “gravest threat”, and massive investment for offshore wind in Denmark to produce green ammonia, there’s no shortage ...
02.18.2021 89. The Ministry for the Future with Kim Stanley Robinson On Friday, The United States will officially be back in the Paris Climate Agreement! cue appropriate volume of fanfare And while in a week where Dallas, Texas is colder than Anchorage, Alaska - our co-host Paul Dickinson takes us on ...
02.11.2021 88. Living on Planet Earth with Oliver Jeffers According to new research by a team of U.S. and U.K. scientists published in Environmental Research, Fossil fuels alone are responsible for more than 8 million premature deaths annually. That’s 1 out of 5 deaths. Let that sink in for ...
02.04.2021 87. The Future of Urban Transport This is our fourth and final episode of an Outrage + Optimism investigative series on The Future of Transport. In 2019, UN Secretary General stated that “cities are where the climate battle will largely be won or lost” and he ...
01.28.2021 86. The Scientific Case for The Race to Zero with Johan Rockström Welcome to Season 3! With a renewed sense of optimism felt around the world with the inauguration of President Joe Biden in the United States this month, our collective sigh of relief is quickly met with the sobering reality of ...
01.20.2021 BONUS: U.S. Inauguration Special with Gina McCarthy Today we witness history, the 59th United States Presidential Inauguration. And a long time coming, right? It’s been 4 years of destructive and incompetent leadership on climate from the United States federal government, but today the U.S. is BACK. Not ...
01.15.2021 85. The Future of Shipping This is our third episode of an Outrage + Optimism investigative series on The Future of Transport. With 2020 barely in the rearview mirror, the pandemic rages on across the globe, new variants bringing concern and unified collective action to ...
01.06.2021 BONUS: A Great Regeneration with Andrew Higham and Mission 2020 A special bonus episode for a little inspiration as 2021 begins! Christiana Figueres and the Outrage + Optimism gang chat with Andrew Higham, Chief Executive of Mission 2020 as its mission comes to a close. Mission 2020 was born out ...
12.25.2020 84. The 2020 Christmas Lectures: A User's Guide to Planet Earth with Dr. Helen Czerski, Prof. Chris Jackson and Dr. Tara Shine With the first year in the most decisive decade in history coming to a close, we wrap up Season 2 of Outrage and Optimism by being visited by 3 Christmas Ghos...ahem...Scientists. ...That’s a Charles Dickens joke. But all joking aside, ...
12.18.2020 83. How Europe is Racing to Zero with Frans Timmermans and Nigel Topping The Climate Ambition Summit this week announced some of the most ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions we have seen to date. And so with the European Commission announcing it’s target of 55% GHG reductions by 2030, the world has optimistically moved ...
12.11.2020 82. The Paris Effect with Laurence Tubiana Show notes: The Paris Effect On December 12th, 2015 the landmark Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 countries as the first unanimously agreed climate change treaty. It has become a symbol of collaboration, a spirit of shared interest merging harmoniously ...
12.04.2020 81. Climate Justice and Racial Justice with David Lammy Around the world In 2020, we saw an unprecedented rise in activism surrounding Black Lives Matter and the call for racial and social justice. But if there’s one enormous takeaway for those marching for the climate, it is that our ...
11.27.2020 80. The Future of Fuels This is our second episode of an Outrage + Optimism investigative series on The Future of Transport. There’s no denying that for over a century, fossil fuels have played a key role in humanity’s progress. But at a cost. They ...
11.20.2020 79. Everything Is Possible with Sanda Ojiambo After 4 intolerable years of you-know-who in the US, this week there seems to be a brief moment of calm. But while many of us are catching our breath, the world is transforming how it will conduct business as usual ...
11.13.2020 78. Adrenaline, Stamina and Joy with Xiye Bastida With young voter turnout in the US election the highest it has been in 40 years, President-Elect Joe Biden is heading to the White House with a mandate to address the climate crisis head on, following on his promises he ...
11.07.2020 77. U.S. Election Special: A New Optimism with Ben Rhodes and Todd Stern The US election winner has all but been formally declared, with Joe Biden on the cusp of electoral victory. But after all the votes are counted, we see that there was record turnout for both Democrats and Republicans. What mandate ...
10.30.2020 76. Decision Time 2020 with John Podesta Election Day is next Tuesday, November 3rd. It cannot be ignored - How the US will vote next week will have global consequences. What does the outcome look like as we see it just before Election Day, and how on ...
10.22.2020 75. Optimism and Earthshots with Prince William This week on Outrage + Optimism, Prince William is here! With just under 10 years to cut global emissions by 50%, the future of our planet depends on a raising of ambition we have not seen since JFK’s Moonshot. A ...
10.16.2020 74. The Future of Flight This is the first of an Outrage + Optimism investigative series on The Future of Transport. Today our cars, planes, trains and ships cause nearly 30% of global carbon pollution. We think the pioneering spirit that got these industries and ...
10.09.2020 73. Prelude to TED Countdown with Chris Anderson and Lindsay Levin On the eve of TED Countdown, Christiana and Tom sit down for an in-depth conversation with TED's Chris Anderson and Lindsay Levin, CEO of Leaders' Quest, detailing an exclusive sneak-preview of what we can look forward to during the epic ...
10.02.2020 72. No Room for Being Cynical with Ted Danson Plenty of outrage this week after the first U.S. Presidential Debate and disappointing news about the biodiversity pledge. But a conversation with Ted Danson offers hope and insight from his remarkable life and commitment to the worlds oceans. When Ted ...
09.29.2020 BONUS: Climate Leadership Now with Alok Sharma, Kara Hurst and We Mean Business Christiana talked with Alok Sharma, the UK government’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, also President of the forthcoming climate negotiations, COP26, to find out about the state of diplomacy and what to aim for in 2021. ...
09.25.2020 71. We Can Only Face the Future if We Do it Together with Achim Steiner As the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Achim Steiner has a relentless collaborative spirit. The conversation covers the relationship between the environment and economic development as big news comes this week from China. --- Our special musical guest ...
09.18.2020 70. BP's Road to Rebuilding Trust with CEO Bernard Looney This week we sit down with the CEO of BP, Bernard Looney. Following BP's announcement to be net-zero by 2050 and cutting oil production by 40% by 2030, we talk about the beginning steps to rebuilding trust and what it ...
09.11.2020 69. Climate Action is a Team Sport with Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi It all started one cold night in Paris in December 2008. Two American friends visiting the city couldn’t get a taxi and this frustration inspired them to ask ‘what if’? What if it were possible to order a car ride ...
09.04.2020 68. Faith, Science and the Climate Crisis with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe With over 80% of people on Earth claiming a religious affiliation, it's impossible to imagine solving the climate crisis without major religions taking climate action on as a spiritual exercise of their faith. and in the US, less than 30% ...
08.31.2020 BONUS: Extinction Rebellion Are Back with Gail Bradbrook Ahead of the massive climate demonstrations planned by Extinction Rebellion the first 2 weeks of September, Tom has an insightful conversation with Extinction Rebellion co-founder, Gail Bradbrook on what we can expect to see and how we can get involved. ...
08.28.2020 67. Longing for the Endless Immensity of the Sea with Philippe Cousteau Jr. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery One of ...
08.21.2020 66. Embracing Radical Uncertainty with Rebecca Solnit With the US election less than 75 days away, the entire world is watching because the future of the planet is on the ballot. How do we rise in moments like this to be the people this moment needs us ...
08.14.2020 65. Hope, Rage and What We’re Going to Do About It with Jonathon Porritt and Lily Cole This week! 2 Authors, 1 Crisis. Do we have a "Hope In Hell" to survive the climate crisis, or do we have "Reasons To Be Optimistic" in the face of it? We talk with longtime activist Jonathon Porritt and famous ...
08.07.2020 64. Alan Jope is Doubling Down When a new CEO steps in to their new role at their new company, more often than not they take the company in a new direction. But what happens when you're the new CEO at a company that has 100+ ...
07.31.2020 63. Facing an Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells What role does fear play in awakening humanity to avoiding it's own demise? Can fear sustain long-term action and help us avoid climate change? This week we talk the scary bits of climate truth with author of "The Uninhabitable Earth" ...
07.24.2020 62. Taking Dirty Energy To Court with James Thornton and Dr. Tara Shine Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, legal systems around the world are beginning to witness the power of citizens, organizations, and businesses fighting legal battles to protect Earth. But who's side is the law on? This week we talk ...
07.17.2020 61. Massive Attack and Saci Lloyd Are Creating Eutopia In a world where culture leads politics, what is the role of the artist in political activism? This week, we interview Massive Attack's Rob "3D" Del Naja and long-time collaborator, Mark Donne to discuss intentional, subversive creation in times of ...
07.10.2020 60. NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir Went Off The Earth, For The Earth This week, Outrage! and Optimism goes galactic to talk about the relationship between policy and science. In a world riddled by authoritarian divisions and isolating nationalism, how do we bring ourselves and our neighbors to the realization that we are ...
07.03.2020 59. Richard Curtis Wants to Make Your Money Matter This week, a LIVEstream episode! We were joined by activist and filmmaker, Richard Curtis, for his second time on the podcast! His latest initiative, Make My Money Matter is a campaign to shift the £3 trillion invested in UK pensions ...

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Outrage + Optimism episodes:

101. A Fund for the Earth with Andrew Steer

BONUS: Outrage + Optimism is 100 Episodes Strong! with Christiana, Tom and Paul

100. Financing The Race to Zero!

99. Hope Is a Verb with Fred Krupp

98. 100% Outrage and 100% Optimism with John Kerry

97. Jojo Mehta on Ecocide and Ending Impunity

96. Climate Action Is the Adventure of Our Lives with Bertrand Piccard and Dee Caffari

BONUS: The Stubborn Optimist's Playlist Vol. 2

95. Sounds of Action! The Stubborn Optimist's Playlist Vol. 1

94. The Risk of Living Under a White Sky with Elizabeth Kolbert

BONUS: What The Hale Does This Mean? with Thomas Hale: Net Zero Goals

93. The Race To Zero! Extreme Electrification with Nico Rosberg and Sara Price

92. Vicki Hollub Thinks Oil Has a (Low Carbon) Future

91. The Race to Zero! Road to COP26

90. Ferocious Love with Katharine Wilkinson

89. The Ministry for the Future with Kim Stanley Robinson

88. Living on Planet Earth with Oliver Jeffers

87. The Future of Urban Transport

86. The Scientific Case for The Race to Zero with Johan Rockström

BONUS: U.S. Inauguration Special with Gina McCarthy

85. The Future of Shipping

BONUS: A Great Regeneration with Andrew Higham and Mission 2020

84. The 2020 Christmas Lectures: A User's Guide to Planet Earth with Dr. Helen Czerski, Prof. Chris Jackson and Dr. Tara Shine

83. How Europe is Racing to Zero with Frans Timmermans and Nigel Topping

82. The Paris Effect with Laurence Tubiana

81. Climate Justice and Racial Justice with David Lammy

80. The Future of Fuels

79. Everything Is Possible with Sanda Ojiambo

78. Adrenaline, Stamina and Joy with Xiye Bastida

77. U.S. Election Special: A New Optimism with Ben Rhodes and Todd Stern

76. Decision Time 2020 with John Podesta

75. Optimism and Earthshots with Prince William

74. The Future of Flight

73. Prelude to TED Countdown with Chris Anderson and Lindsay Levin

72. No Room for Being Cynical with Ted Danson

BONUS: Climate Leadership Now with Alok Sharma, Kara Hurst and We Mean Business

71. We Can Only Face the Future if We Do it Together with Achim Steiner

70. BP's Road to Rebuilding Trust with CEO Bernard Looney

69. Climate Action is a Team Sport with Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi

68. Faith, Science and the Climate Crisis with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

BONUS: Extinction Rebellion Are Back with Gail Bradbrook

67. Longing for the Endless Immensity of the Sea with Philippe Cousteau Jr.

66. Embracing Radical Uncertainty with Rebecca Solnit

65. Hope, Rage and What We’re Going to Do About It with Jonathon Porritt and Lily Cole

64. Alan Jope is Doubling Down

63. Facing an Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells

62. Taking Dirty Energy To Court with James Thornton and Dr. Tara Shine

61. Massive Attack and Saci Lloyd Are Creating Eutopia

60. NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir Went Off The Earth, For The Earth

59. Richard Curtis Wants to Make Your Money Matter

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