Episode 137

[FOCUS] Gen Z and Climate Change

Episode Summary: This episode is focused on a discussion on Gen Z and Climate change. It is selected from episode 29.

In this segment, Estella, our 21-year-old Gen Z guest, shares her profound anxiety about climate change, a fear stemming from childhood memories.

Initially interested in fashion, she had a career pivot influenced by eye-opening facts she learned on TikTok and social media about the industry's environmental and human rights violations. She is now committed to working with sustainable brands across a range of sectors, with the goal of encouraging better consumer choices and moving capital away from harmful companies.

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributor Jenn Swanson and guest Estella Struck.

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves.   

Estella is based in New York and is CEO and founder of Viviene, a Gen Z Marketing Agency working with sustainable brands.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

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When it comes to the climate, we don’t need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.

The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism or to take action. Yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not opinions. Insights, not statistics. And a shift from thinking about climate change as a “me” problem to a “we” problem.

The Carbon Almanac is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between hundreds of writers, researchers, thinkers, and illustrators that focuses on what we know, what has come before, and what might happen next. Drawing on over 1,000 data points, the book uses cartoons, quotes, illustrations, tables, histories, and articles to lay out carbon’s impact on our food system, ocean acidity, agriculture, energy, biodiversity, extreme weather events, the economy, human health, and best and worst-case scenarios. Visually engaging and built to share, The Carbon Almanac is the definitive source for facts and the basis for a global movement to fight climate change.

This isn’t what the oil companies, marketers, activists, or politicians want you to believe. This is what’s really happening, right now. Our planet is in trouble, and no one concerned group, corporation, country, or hemisphere can address this on its own. Self-interest only increases the problem. We are in this together. And it’s not too late to for concerted, collective action for change.