We’ve all heard the cries echoing from climate marches: “SYSTEM-CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE!”. But what does that actually mean?
This investigative mini-series explores how our society has been built, uncovers the flaws in its foundation, and asks: how might we change things for the better?
Investigative journalism. Talks with world-leading experts. Complex social, historical, and scientific concepts explained simply. At a time when the headlines can seem so alarming and random, The Water We Swim In is here to give you a better understanding of what they really mean.
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We’ve all heard the cries echoing from climate marches: “SYSTEM-CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE!”. But what does that actually mean?
This investigative mini-series explores how our society has been built, uncovers the flaws in its foundation, and asks: how might we change things for the better?
Investigative journalism. Talks with world-leading experts. Complex social, historical, and scientific concepts explained simply. At a time when the headlines can seem so alarming and random, The Water We Swim In is here to give you a better understanding of what they really mean.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In Episode 5 "The Most Unfree", we investigated the damage that neoliberalism has inflicted upon our democracy and the enormous power corporations have amassed in our society...but we didn't have much time to touch on solutions.
So, this week we're taking a break from the usual style of episode to bring you a very special bonus interview with the brilliant JEREMY LENT, in which we discuss his 5-point proposal for curbing the power of corporations in our society.
Described by journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age”, Jeremy, is an author and integrator whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilisation’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.
His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on connectedness that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.
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