Imagining Tomorrow
It’s hard to imagine a bright future in the face of the climate crisis. This new podcast, from Hugo Award winning podcaster and author Emma Newman, will take you on a journey from despair to the most radiant, radical hope.
Made in partnership with Friends of the Earth, Imagining Tomorrow shows how we can create a future that is good for people and for nature, based on innovations in technology and community action that are already having a positive impact.
Join Emma as she pieces together the roadmap to utopia by interviewing amazing inventors, communities and award-winning science fiction authors.
We can’t build a better future until we can imagine it, so let’s imagine it together.
Imagining Tomorrow
Campaigning, Collaborating, Motivating
In recent years, young people have been at the forefront of campaigning on climate change. How does it feel to spearhead a campaign? How is it possible to campaign with busy lives and academic pressures? What keeps you going in these times of hostile politics, an adversarial press and toxic social media? Emma Newman talks to a young activist who has spearheaded an amazing campaign for clean air in London and a youth campaigning mentor from Friends of the Earth.
In episode 5 we heard from:
- Destiny Boka-Batesa from the Choked Up campaign
- Rowha Mohid, Climate Youth Society peer mentor from Friends of the Earth
Additional resources related to the episode
Destiny's article in Cherwell (Oxford's oldest student newspaper)
Survey on the mental health impact of eco-anxiety [PDF] published in The Lancet
Friends of the Earth's Climate.Youth.Society programme.
Do you want to tell Emma about a project or idea linked to this episode? Email podcast@enewman.co.uk