What are your favourite videos to combat climate anxiety?
By Said Bouziane @ 2024-09-12T21:57 (+2)
Hey everyone, I'd love to know what your favourite videos are for spreading optimism, increasing hope and improving general outlook for the future of climate change, improved agriculture and ecological protection.
Here's an example of what I mean, a talk by someone who made a horrendous mistake mismanaging the elephant population in South Africa and has spent his life since making the world more green.
Soemano Zeijlmans @ 2024-09-13T13:10 (+3)
In general, I find most channels posting 'positive climate news' honestly a bit annoying because they tend to focus on things that really don't matter all that much in the big picture, or present their solution as a silver bullet while in fact there is none. (But maybe I'm a bit too critical here.)
If you're interested, we've compiled a big list of climate-related resources on the Effective Environmentalism website - some of which are quite hopeful! For example, the books Not the End of the World and Regenesis. There are also a bunch of podcasts and videos on climate solutions that have a bit of a "yes we can" vibe.
https://www.effectiveenvironmentalism.org/resources
Outside EA circles, I really love the YouTube channel Just Have a Think for some climate hope. And (not a video, but a static image), the falling costs of solar is one of the most hopeful graphics in the climate cause area!
Said Bouziane @ 2024-09-14T09:31 (+2)
Thank you this is 100% what I was looking for.
Soemano Zeijlmans @ 2024-09-14T16:48 (+1)
Glad to hear!
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