Translating Shared Experience into Action: Climate Changers with Ryan Flahive

Our director Miranda Massie spoke with Ryan Flahive for Climate Changers, a weekly podcast featuring interviews of leaders across sectors taking initiative in the face of the climate crisis. We’re grateful for the opportunity to share the Climate Museum’s approach to inspiring civic action for just solutions. Listen to the full podcast and read excerpts below:

Covid has exposed and intensified excruciating racial and class inequalities in US society. The climate crisis does that all the time in slower motion, on a larger scale.

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The climate crisis is a crisis of intergenerational justice. Delay by older people who could move us forward will result, as a scientific certainty, in far greater suffering by younger people.

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We need to do more than offer people a profound shared experience. For us to be doing our job, that experience must be translated into civic action.

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