New Story to Spark the FUTURE OF CLIMATE ACTION Institute for the Future researchers Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz talk with inventor and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Saul Griffith about how need new mindsets as much as new technologies to alleviate climate change. You Can’t Consume Your Way Out of Global Warming Over the next decade, as climate effects worsen, we will explore surprising combinations of simplicity and complexity, constraint and transformation, in our search for the most effective strategies for climate adaptation. The Apocalypse Project: House of Futures was a 7-month exhibition in IFTF's Future Gallery that explored our environmental futures in the anthropocene through the lens of high fashion. No pie graphs, no PowerPoint-just a blithering idiot played by one of my favorite actors, Bob Odenkirk. Hopefully it captures the absurdity and the desperation of our current situation. He’s an admiral of a fleet of one and perhaps the last man on Earth. I’ve created nineteen thirty-second spots that profile a character I created: Admiral Horatio Horntower. It’s all so preposterous, so contemptible. If Al Gore said the Earth was round there would be political opposition insisting that the Earth was flat. Climate change has become yet another vehicle for political polarization. Galileo famously replied to Archbishop Piccolomini (or some other Vatican prelate), “And yet it moves.” Today we could just as well say, “And yet it changes.” But what to do about it? Logic rarely convinces anybody of anything. I have never had any trouble believing in climate change, global warming, or whatever you want to call it. Presented by Biscuit Filmworks & Fourth Floor Productions. They recognize what Admiral Horntower can’t: We’re at the brink of global meltdown. Standing atop a melting iceberg, Admiral Horatio Horntower ponders life’s mysteries with a series of animal friends.
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