Hope vs Fear, Live from Wilderness Festival
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English - August 06, 2019 14:36 - 37 minutes - 35 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPolitics News News Commentary politics sociology society matthew taylor rsa political science royal society of arts trump coronavirus covid-19 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Matthew Taylor is joined by a live Wilderness Festival audience and John Harris from The Guardian to explore the battle between the politics of hope and the politics of fear.
Hope can be a great motivating force in politics. And so can fear. In January, the teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg told the grown-ups at Davos: “I don’t want your hope. I want you to panic. And then I want you to act.” But on climate change and many other issues, fear can turn into fatalism. So how can we remain hopeful without losing a sense of reality?
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Recorded live at Wilderness Festival on Saturday 3rd August 2019.
Produced by James Shield.
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