"Bread and Circuses: How Story Has Propped Up Fossil-Fuelled Capitalism" with Tim Winton AO (from the archives)
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This week, we’re diving back into the archives to say hello to Tim Winton AO.
According to the 2023 IPCC Report, we have (now) six years left to cut carbon emissions by 50% before climate damage to the planet is irreversible. How can “story” influence, affect or alter this trajectory, if at all?
In this episode of The Storymakers Institute, Tim and I sit down to mull over how story has propped up fossil-fuelled capitalism (whilst creative folk scramble for crumbs off the boardroom floor), and why we need to ignore “bread and circuses” … and start breaking some shit.
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