Living Future unConference 2017

TRACK: Master Speakers

Climate denialism and defeatism are close cousins. They both breed inaction: denialism by distorting our understanding of the climate crisis (“there is no crisis”), and defeatism by distorting our understanding of climate solutions (“there are no solutions”). Those of us in the Living Future community are not particularly swayed by climate denialism. But we are more susceptible to climate defeatism, and that makes defeatism a potential threat to the action that we must take. Denis and Zack will unpack defeatism and draw upon environmental economics to connect NZE building with the imperative to “keep it in the ground.”