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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Rinsing and Repeating Our Way to Climate Disaster? Is There a Better Way?
Description: Linwood Pendleton on how Indigenous wisdom and local knowledge can reshape the world’s response to climate change.
Thirty years ago, the United Nations challenged the political leaders of the world to do something about global warming. The politicians responded as politicians always do: they convened meeting after meeting, talked endlessly and---of course---agreed to keep on meeting. Rinse and repeat, year after year, even as the warming and its impacts became more obvious and more consequential.
Why? Effective global governance is largely a joke in a world organized around nation-states and characterized by dramatic inequality of power an...