{"id":58002,"date":"2021-05-23T06:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58002"},"modified":"2021-05-23T06:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:19:37","slug":"my-closing-presentation-to-the-jersey-climate-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58002","title":{"rendered":"My closing presentation to the Jersey Climate Conversation."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robhopkins.net\/2021\/05\/20\/my-closing-presentation-to-the-jersey-climate-conversation\/\">My closing presentation to the Jersey Climate Conversation.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It was a huge honour recently to be asked to be a speaker at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climateconversation.je\/\">Jersey\u2019s Climate Conversation,<\/a>\u00a0the island\u2019s Citizens\u2019 Assembly. I was asked to be their final presenter before they went off to deliberate their decisions. I was asked to give them a boost and a sense of why their deliberations matter so much. Here is the presentation I gave them, firstly the video, and then the transcript. I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dbiebYYYG2A\" width=\"1011\" height=\"711\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a huge honour to have been asked to be your final presenter. I imagine you have already seen so many presenters that I\u2019m quite the last thing you want to see. I hope there might just be room for one more.. . The first thing I want to say is thank you. You have had quite a time of it. Bombarded with complex information, immersed in concepts and science that may well have led to you having sleepless nights.<\/p>\n<p>My own experience, when I really \u2018got\u2019 climate change, was like what the great mystics back through history have called a \u2018Dark Night of the Soul\u2019. This is an area of knowledge that can bring with it a burden, of despair, hopelessness, grief. I have huge respect to you all for taking up this challenge, on behalf of your fellow citizens, and bringing your best selves to figuring this stuff out.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not here to tell you whether your target ought to be 2030, 2040, 2050. That\u2019s not for me to say. I have only visited Jersey once, gave a talk about the urgent imperative to move away from oil and gas dependency, and was then talked about in the letters page of the island\u2019s newspaper for weeks as if I were the most idealistic and dangerous person to ever set foot on the island&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My closing presentation to the Jersey Climate Conversation. It was a huge honour recently to be asked to be a speaker at the\u00a0Jersey\u2019s Climate Conversation,\u00a0the island\u2019s Citizens\u2019 Assembly. I was asked to be their final presenter before they went off to deliberate their decisions. I was asked to give them a boost and a sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[141,341,31266,5971],"class_list":["post-58002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-future","tag-jersey-climate-conversation","tag-rob-hopkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58003,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002\/revisions\/58003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}