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Lectures and podcast interviews with University of Oslo climate scientist Karen O'Brien, spanning human security, transformation, and quantum social change.
…vi jobber med alle disse løsningene for klima. Boka du har skrevet heter jo You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World, hvor du utdyper disse poengene. Kan du gå gjennom det viktigste fra boka her? Jeg tror den viktigste…
…er veldig deprimerte over klimaendringer. Jeg selv, mange ganger. Det ser ut som at vi skal ha katastrofer etter katastrofer. Men Quantum Social Change gir oss den makt for å ta den fremtiden vi vil ha her og nå og skape den endringen. Ja, til stede og…
…betyr noe hva vi mener å gjøre Ja, det er noe som jeg er veldig interessert i, og jeg har en organisasjon som heter Sea Change, som transformation in a changing climate, og vi jobber med noe som jeg har brukt med studentene mine, om å bare ta en…
…system og by som et system. Så Så man kan påvirke forskjellige ting. Nå er jeg som co-chair av FNs naturpanele, Transformative Change Assessment, og jeg kan påvirke hvordan vi skal få til den assessment på en internasjonal nivå, hvordan skal vi snakke om…
…kan vi gjøre for å ha en en liv som fungerer for alle av oss. I den første utkastet boken, det var som Quantum Social Change for a World in Crisis, så det var skrevet i koronatiden, men etterhvert var det som No for a Thriving World. Så vi vil ha…
…nå er det slik at å bare si hva er hvordan kan vi få til at folk tenker at de betyr mer enn de tror nettopp Karen O'Brien, You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World. Veldig interessant bok. Takk for praten. Tusen takk.
…the AAG Human Dimensions Specialty Group. In 2021, she was co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Climate Change. Dr. O'Brien, welcome to Trustees Without Borders. Thank you. Thank you so much. And thanks for inviting me to talk…
…Kathy? Karen, it is a delight to have you here. Your latest book's title, You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World, is uplifting and intriguing at the same time. For our listeners who may be unfamiliar with your work,…
…giving us a sense of potentially what our small things might add up to be. I wanted to ask you about your organization, Sea Change. which you've said is very active on social media and has attracted a number of people and organizations who also are very…
…agreed on a plan to restrict methane pollution, methane being very potent gas. more so than CO2. And the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in about a week as the 26th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change. So sort of honing in on…
…And the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in about a week as the 26th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change. So sort of honing in on these global institutions that organize and speak, I think that Conference of the Parties meets…
…great line. You matter more than you think. Indeed, how I first came across you, Karen, was via Sea Challenge and Sea Change because it had so many parallels with the processes we were running through in our postgraduate sustainability education in the…
…change for a thriving world So Karen is a professor at the University of Oslo in Norway and co-founder of Sea Change, an organization that supports transformation in a changing climate. Her research emphasizes the social and human dimensions of global…
…bbva foundation frontiers of knowledge award for climate change Her new book, You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World introduces a radically different way of thinking about climate change and social change. Inspired by ideas…
…And I think that when we approach climate change as a technical problem, and we're told by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we have all the technologies, we can do this, and we have ingenuity and creativity, and yet we see that we're…
…of that. So, you know, maybe this is also a beautiful moment to start speaking about the project that you've created called Sea Change, which is like a more concrete level of speaking about how much each of us matters. Yeah, and I think that going…
…Soon, Karen O'Brien from the University of Oslo will hold a talk called We Are More Important Than We Think About Climate Change. For simultaneous translation from English to Turkish, it is possible to join via Zoom. You can find the link on our YouTube…
…in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She's also co-founder of Sea Change, an organization that supports transformation and changing climate. And her current research focuses on the relationship between climate…
…Celsius. So, I think, I guess the question we're getting at is, what do institutions such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the COP on Climate Change do well, and what could they do better in tackling climate change from a quantum…
…question we're getting at is, what do institutions such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the COP on Climate Change do well, and what could they do better in tackling climate change from a quantum perspective? Yeah, and I think there's…
…change from a quantum perspective? Yeah, and I think there's different dimensions here, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, you know, it's a relationship between science and policymakers that really, you know, it's a negotiated text at the…
…policymakers, you know, the state-of-the-art understanding of where we're at. And then through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the conference of parties and things. It's almost like, you know, we have the marching orders from the…