Everybody in the Pool Episode 12: When the Flood is at your Door
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Aug 3, 2023 
Climate futurist Alex Steffen discusses the urgent need for societal transformation to combat climate change, emphasizing the importance of adapting to a new reality. The episode explores empowering individuals for positive change through sustainable technology advancements like electric vehicles and sustainable building technologies. It also highlights the recommendations from Alex Steffen's newsletter, Snap Forward, and a new home food recycler called the Mill.
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Discontinuity Rewrites Decision Rules
- Discontinuity means change of kind, not just magnitude, where past decision tools stop working.
- Alex Steffen explains our atmosphere, oceans, soils changing create a new context that makes past experience a bad guide.
Journalist Who Lived the Lost Fight
- Steffen describes his emotional shift from decades of advocacy to realizing we've largely 'lost that fight' and now live in the future once warned about.
- He recounts personal discontinuities: places and ambitions he loved becoming untenable in today's climate reality.
Trans‑Apocalyptic Future Is Unevenly Distributed
- We're in a 'trans‑apocalyptic' world where some places face ruin while others remain relatively safe.
- Steffen stresses this unevenness means outcomes depend on geography, policy, and luck.