Interview: A New Approach to Save Us from Climate Catastrophe

Like many scientists, I’m deeply worried about tipping points in our climate system - rapid changes that could bring massive shocks to human civilization - not 100 years from now, but at any point from now. Here’s a video I helped make ages ago that explains these types of threats:

“Tipping Points” - a trailer for the film Disruption (click image to watch)

We’ve made much progress on climate change since I did this video, but the science is now painting an even worse picture of the threats we’re facing and how soon we could face them, and in the US and Europe the politics has moved against climate action right when we need it most. So what do we do now to avoid the unimaginable?

Christiana Figueres is like the Pope of climate - she led the UN convention on climate change and successfully negotiated the Paris Climate Accord. She interviewed me in France recently for her podcast about some work I’ve begun in this area. Watch our chat below or listen to her whole podcast here: