[Trailer] How can YOU Drive Impact in our world? Key Actions to take NOW!

So how do we— if we start with government, how do we change policy? How can we impact policy as individuals?

You need to vote. So that is the most important part. How are you holding your elected officials accountable for making decisions about the climate that's long-term?

We used to be on track for a 4 to 6 degree warming on the planet. Now we're on track for a 2 to 3 degree warming on the planet. The average person, what we need to do We need to obviously be careful how we live. You know, we need to reduce our footprint where we can. But what's even more important is that we ask our elected officials who work for us— government works for us— that we make sure that they know that we care whether or not they're stopping fossil fuel expansion and increasing the expansion of renewable energy. It's that simple. We have to stop building the bad stuff and build more of the good stuff.

There are 25 companies that are responsible for 50% of the carbon in the environment. Those people could fit around a conference table.

I'm just gonna pause here. Yeah. Minute of silence. I mean, where is your profit gonna live if there's no more planet?

And so as you're making decisions about where you're gonna spend your dollars, don't spend it with companies that are making this planet unlivable.

The IMF reports that our governments are giving $7 trillion in public money to the oil companies, even though they're the most profitable companies on Earth.

You know what that is?

$13 million a minute. Our job as citizens has to be to give more political space. You know, women would have never gotten the right to vote if there hadn't been people marching in the streets and chaining themselves to Parliament and writing letters and saying, "I support this." Because if you support it, then our politicians will take the actions to do it. You know, the individual has probably a lot more power than they are aware of. For me, the entry point or the reckoning moment was that so much of our forest is being destroyed as a result of climate change. And now that I've been doing this for decades, I realize that actually it's not so complicated. This is about whether or not we use and produce more oil, gas, and coal or not.

Part of the reasons of creating this podcast is that 3 years and a half ago I became a mom. And the same time George Floyd happened, I was on maternity leave and Breonna Taylor died. And then I couldn't sleep at night. Breonna Taylor is a Black woman that was shot while she was sleeping.

And so this sort of understanding that these systems are not made for us. So just the lack of care for us as human beings was so evident.

So all those different dreams that I always postponed to tomorrow, and then now I decided like, Tomorrow is now.

So that's how things happen, right?

It's magic of connections and it's the magic. Yeah, yeah. Solving a small problem, then you find the kindred souls that bring them to life.

My view was I don't want to be on my dead bed and say, you know what, what if, what if I'd done that?

Community does not happen. You have to purposefully build it.

Where do you find all your energy?

I think you feel these types of things in your gut.

They're the things you do that people aren't telling you to do, but you're just finding that you're doing them because you love them. Pursuing track and field brought me to the heart of Silicon Valley.

Worst case scenarios, or AI scaries, if you could call them, of like, if AI is left on its own device, what are the— where can it go?

I mean, very— it already has gone to the place of realizing that human beings are the problem.

Science is intelligence, and let's say philosophy and ethics is wisdom. And we always do things, we rush towards new technologies before we've understood how those things are going to have impact. And we're doing that with AI right now.

We're doing research with academics from around the world, and we came up with this idea of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, modeled in part after the work that nations did to agree on how to stop stockpiling nuclear weapons. So we have now proposed a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. And you know what? A year ago, only one country backed it. Vanuatu, the most vulnerable country on Earth. If climate change keeps getting worse, they're going to drown. But get this, a year later, we now have 12 countries that are backing the fossil fuel treaty, including Colombia, who's a major fossil fuel producing nation. President Petro at at this last international climate change negotiations in Dubai made this amazing speech about why Colombia was joining the Fossil Fuel Treaty. So now there are 12 countries, but there's also over 2,000 academics, 100 Nobel laureates, over 100 cities have passed motions calling for the Fossil Fuel Treaty. Wow. And over 3,000 organizations, including every major religious institution in the world, the World Council of Churches, archbishops, cardinals. We're even in conversation with the Vatican. So this is a huge movement now of health groups and women's groups and faith groups and cities all calling on countries to start negotiating a fossil fuel treaty.

So for yourself, as you look at retirement age or end of your life, what do you, what do you want your impact to be? What's the change that you want to create in the world? And what are you doing right now that makes that future possible? And then what I do is compare that vision with my calendar, which is not always a great activity.

Ooh, that's the, that's gonna be the shock.