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Dana R. Fisher calls herself an “apocalyptic optimist” based on her research as a sociologist of large social movements. Her studies suggest that ever-increasing climate disasters will get people out in the streets demanding the action we need. She breaks down how to cultivate resilience to catastrophe in yourself and your community — and how…

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Dana R. Fisher calls herself an “apocalyptic optimist” based on her research as a sociologist of large social movements. Her studies suggest that ever-increasing climate disasters will get people out in the streets demanding the action we need. She breaks down how to cultivate resilience to catastrophe in yourself and your community — and how to rally for change in the face of seemingly intractable problems.

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  1. @TaiTranan

    August 18, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Continue to delight your viewers with fresh and quality content. Your ideas are always so original.🍩♠️🤑

  2. @tiffanymartinez-lapa2654

    August 18, 2025 at 12:10 pm

    We are too greedy and forgot how to think and dream about a beautiful future for the world.

    • @marnig9185

      August 18, 2025 at 12:29 pm

      Iam not.

    • @JacobthePoshPotato

      August 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm

      Who are you calling “we”?

  3. @ewalichorowicz4614

    August 18, 2025 at 12:12 pm

    I agree 💯

  4. @KevinMarquette

    August 18, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    Adapt to change because you can’t prevent it. We can ignore the problem, pretend like we can prevent the problem, or accept reality of whatever comes next and prepare accordingly.

  5. @rridafitness2340

    August 18, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    thank you

  6. @micahkeller1233

    August 18, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Yeah except greenhouse gasses raise the Earth’s temperature, which is great cuz I love summer. Also, more plants grow when there’s more CO2 in the atmosphere.

    • @SkullpunkArt

      August 18, 2025 at 12:54 pm

      Obvious ragebait is obvious

    • @thechosenone6333

      August 18, 2025 at 1:08 pm

      What 😅

    • @SkullpunkArt

      August 18, 2025 at 1:13 pm

      @@thechosenone6333he’s trolling, don’t pay attention to him.

  7. @thechosenone6333

    August 18, 2025 at 1:09 pm

    “Don’t listen to feminists or women ” that’s what andrew tate said 😹

  8. @AisleEpe-oz8kf

    August 18, 2025 at 2:13 pm

    Why not reseed the o3 levels? thanks

  9. @Ibraheem_akm

    August 18, 2025 at 2:38 pm

    Apocalyptic Optimism:

    The Prophet ﷺ said:

    “If the Hour (the Day of Judgment) is about to be established and one of you has a sapling in his hand, then if he is able to plant it before the Hour is established, let him plant it.”

    📚 Reported by Ahmad (Musnad Ahmad, no. 12981) and authenticated by al-Albani in Sahih al-Jami‘ (no. 1424).

    🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

  10. @awesomusmaximus3766

    August 18, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    Life can’t exist without C02

    • @sykessaul123

      August 19, 2025 at 8:06 am

      *Carbon based life can’t exist without CO2. Carbon based life also can’t exist with too much CO2. Like all things it’s a balance, and humans have knocked that balance by burning things that were long buried, releasing far too much carbon into the atmosphere, causing global warming. The greenhouse effect is real, and it’s heating the planet far, far past what it normally would do in a natural warming cycle. This has already had major effects in ecosystems across the world and therefore in human food security, which is a big reason for a lot of migration in the past couple of decades.

    • @awesomusmaximus3766

      August 20, 2025 at 7:39 am

      @@sykessaul123 We need more nuclear power plants and EV’s

    • @sykessaul123

      August 20, 2025 at 9:07 am

      ​@awesomusmaximus3766 Definitely. Whilst I think there’s probably better solutions regarding long distance travel, we’re never going to get to them unless we phase out fossil fuels and curtail big oil’s control over governments and stock markets.

    • @awesomusmaximus3766

      August 21, 2025 at 2:10 am

      @@sykessaul123 We need fossil fuels it’s not only used for combustion it’s what plastics/circuit boards/EV’s /wind turbines etc are made from

  11. @Antonia-z9n

    August 18, 2025 at 3:48 pm

    So

  12. @AnnieB-v8j

    August 18, 2025 at 3:58 pm

    Regenerative agriculture, crop rotation, cover crops, hedgerows, organic and biodynamic methods, predator model livestock husbandry, exclusion of cattle from creeks/streams/springs, native plant propagation, urban forests and tree planting, white/reflective roofing, green roofs, free bicycles, tax breaks for reducing light pollution, service organizations cleaning up litter, e.g.

    • @juliusnanor

      August 18, 2025 at 5:54 pm

      I wish governments would take this more serious

    • @cfb36

      August 18, 2025 at 6:19 pm

      My mom built a house in the Philippines and quite literally we are the only ones with a white roof. Most houses in the area don’t have any kind of attic space, just metal roof as the ceiling inside. If you go inside during the day you’re literally baked by the infrared radiation when you have a dark roof. People are crazy with the colors they choose for roofing!

    • @sykessaul123

      August 19, 2025 at 8:01 am

      Or we could just force companies to switch to renewable sources of fuel instead of fossil fuels, shut down the oil industry, then do that. Limit the amount of warming that’s going to occur, then implement solutions to deal with what warming we’ve already caused and help to reverse it.

    • @AnnieB-v8j

      August 19, 2025 at 3:19 pm

      @@sykessaul123 It is my understanding that fossil fuel companies are now deriving majority profit from plastic production and that the concept of ‘recycling’ plastic is an industry lie. Less than 7% of plastic is recycled, and that only once.
      The excess carbon in the atmosphere at present could be safely and permanently sequestered in healthy, productive rangeland soils within a decade, according to some studies, if proper management were implemented over the area equivalent to 10% of Australia’s agricultural land, spread over all continents. Mitigation must be implemented ASAP on as large a scale as possible if we are to survive as a species. We cannot wait for people whose livelihoods are intertwined with unsustainable and destructive environmental choices to change their outlook. Not to mention, the regenerative practices increase food production and biodiversity which are also critical for life on earth.

  13. @JacobthePoshPotato

    August 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Corporate control over politics is too powerful in the US and Canada.

    • @advanceringnewholder

      August 20, 2025 at 9:42 am

      It’s all over the world. Where i live, coal baron rules like nobility. One of them successfully install his uncle as a governor, and funded local politicians to push his agenda. He has a pool full of crocodile and rumor has it that he throw people that opposes him there

  14. @smoothe14

    August 18, 2025 at 4:01 pm

    Absolute silliness

  15. @hartAlchemyTitanbran

    August 18, 2025 at 5:56 pm

    big business goes with what makes them money.
    eleats that taint the planet, poison the people and control the education want to stay in control.
    and if its controlling the information, education, and narrative. keeps the problem around by programming people to think as they want them to about what they say is the problem. then they can control the people, make money, and never solve the problem.
    i advise you to look into chemistry, look into botany, look into life cycles and water properties. cause plants cant lie. effects of chemistry cant lie, and truth is always silenced by the miss-educated that refuse to ask questions..

  16. @Jeff-fv9rk

    August 18, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    Crickets

  17. @explorerofmind

    August 18, 2025 at 6:33 pm

    I thought we were so close when Elon musk was working with the White House. Unfortunately Trump didn’t repay him by making the proposed government changes this lady is suggesting.

  18. @jfb8067

    August 18, 2025 at 7:43 pm

    this is crap… all made up to steal your money

  19. @yubai-f5r1s

    August 19, 2025 at 2:21 am

    ❤️

  20. @sykessaul123

    August 19, 2025 at 8:09 am

    We could just force companies to switch to renewable sources of fuel instead of fossil fuels, shut down the oil industry, then enact community measures to deal with the rest. Limit the amount of warming that’s going to occur, then implement solutions to deal with what warming we’ve already caused and help to reverse it.

  21. @shawnmadden2246

    August 19, 2025 at 8:09 am

    Lots of words; not much said.

  22. @Snakelegdays

    August 19, 2025 at 11:05 pm

    I heard no answers hear…. just talking

  23. @dcmirk

    August 20, 2025 at 1:41 am

    There is no climate crisis, this is liberal propaganda

  24. @Ever-x4o

    August 20, 2025 at 4:18 am

    If capatalist have value the world they have shared technology not patened it in name of profit…
    even the solar wind all clean energy tech are blocked by profit greed of some

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