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Norse Mythology’s Climate Lessons for the Future | Lauren Fadiman | TED

What if ancient myths are warnings for the future? Contemporary folklorist Lauren Fadiman explores how the Norse tale of Ragnarök may stem from real climate catastrophe, revealing how folklore preserves lessons of resilience and can guide how we adapt to our own time of crisis. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition…

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What if ancient myths are warnings for the future? Contemporary folklorist Lauren Fadiman explores how the Norse tale of Ragnarök may stem from real climate catastrophe, revealing how folklore preserves lessons of resilience and can guide how we adapt to our own time of crisis. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition on October 30, 2024)

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  6. @sooma-ai

    June 6, 2025 at 11:11 am

    Lauren Fadiman explores how Norse mythology’s Ragnarök may stem from real climate catastrophe, showing how folklore preserves lessons of resilience. She discusses geomythology, linking ancient stories to historical climate events and their relevance to modern environmental challenges.

  7. @jackwt7340

    June 6, 2025 at 11:17 am

    If Norwegians are Jomon, then Swedes are Yayoi. Norwegians originated from the Norwegian Sea and Swedes originated from the Baltic Sea.

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    June 6, 2025 at 11:21 am

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  9. @ferramirez4570

    June 6, 2025 at 11:29 am

    Oh yeah sure! I remember when Odin dictate all the Vikings to went Electric and stop burning fuels, How we could fortget that?

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    June 6, 2025 at 11:31 am

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    June 6, 2025 at 11:33 am

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    June 6, 2025 at 1:49 pm

    Which Thor, the little gray guy or the tall blond one?

  14. @timeenoughforart

    June 6, 2025 at 2:12 pm

    Do we get to make up gods to blame for multiple catastrophes we caused, or do we just blame each other? Will the gods a 1000 years from now be called, Exon, Monsanto, Microsoft, the Pentagon?

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    June 6, 2025 at 4:47 pm

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  17. @LeelaBariya-h4r

    June 6, 2025 at 5:49 pm

    It’s honestly unsettling how effective the techniques in this book are. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but after applying what The Cancelled Laws of Reality teaches, my life started shifting so fast it scared me. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re ready for serious change.

  18. @KeshavKumar-st3yp

    June 6, 2025 at 6:58 pm

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  19. @berbudy

    June 6, 2025 at 8:40 pm

    5:23 yeah like thinking capitalism is fixed no other way of life can work on global scale, but I think we will come up with something better

  20. @BusinessTacticsDaily

    June 6, 2025 at 9:09 pm

    Sounds wild, but maybe Iron Age humans were braver than us—they changed their gods in the face of collapse. Meanwhile, we can’t even change our habits.

    👉 What do you think? Do we have the courage to reshape culture to face the climate crisis? Or are we still clinging to outdated myths of control?

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    June 6, 2025 at 10:06 pm

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    June 6, 2025 at 11:19 pm

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  23. @andycordy5190

    June 7, 2025 at 3:13 am

    I totally agree.❤ My particular interest concerns the so called Bronze Age Collapse and what Greek Mythology can tell us about our ancient origins and give substance to events in vague periods of ancient human history. I’m really looking forward to learning more about the catastrophic earth quake and tsunami which destroyed the Mediterranean island we now know only from the remaining caldera fragments which form Santorini (C. 600 bce)

  24. @ofAwxen

    June 7, 2025 at 6:23 am

    We don’t say “omen” anymore, it’s “o-people”

    • @BonnieShadow33

      June 8, 2025 at 2:09 pm

      O-please…

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