Searching for Solutions
As the former mayor of a mid-size Canadian city, I witnessed firsthand the growing social challenges facing communities across North America. Searching for Solutions explores urgent issues like the housing crisis, homelessness, mental health, addiction, and food insecurity and, more importantly, the disruptive ideas that are making a real difference.
Each episode features a guest who helps unpack a problem and points toward practical, proven solutions.
This podcast is for anyone who cares about their community and wants to move from frustration to action at a time when too many people feel powerless to create change.
Searching for Solutions
Can empathy be a key to getting people to act when it comes to climate change?
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The world's climate is accelerating due to humans. It's a fact. Humans have the abilities to alter this pathway that is currently leading towards greater environmental disasters, but what is getting in the way?
Dr. Julia Baird, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Human Dimensions of Water Resources and Water Resilience and Associate Professor at Brock University's Environmental Sustainability Research Centre is exploring the role of empathy as it relates to gaining positive traction on climate actions.
On this episode of Searching for Solutions, we talk about water sustainability, the importance of empathy as a means to get more people focused on environmental issues, and how time is running for us to making meaningful differences for future generations.