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Amanda Scott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
401 total appearances

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Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

wind turbine blades.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

But I've seen videos online of wind turbine blades being put into what we euphemistically call landfill, but was basically hundreds of acres of American prairie that was being pulled back with a backhoe.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

We lay out layers and layers and layers of wind turbines and then we push the soil over the top.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

That's landfill.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And it's horrible.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And how in heaven's name did anybody design a wind turbine blade to produce renewable energy that was not itself renewable?

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

How do we get to that?

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

It just blows all my fuses.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And so there are people in the world...

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

who are trying to design things that have a circular life.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

There aren't enough of us.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And I'd like to hear more about the things that we are designing that are circular, but then I'd like to explore with you because you're obviously in this world.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

How do we get to a tipping point where our consciousness has shifted to the point that designing things in a circular way is what we do rather than the exception?

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

So take that however you feel like.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

It's quite small.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

Yeah, you said you could see the spines of them, but they weren't very effective as I understood it.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

Wow.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

With the school, and you may not know this because you've just seen pictures, but I talk a lot to Tim Logan of the Future Learning Design podcast about the future of education.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And I just had a really generative conversation with Zineb Muhi, who set up Youth by Youth, which is an education for young people by young people podcast.

Accidental Gods
What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

And both of them are absolutely clear that the current way we educate our young people is not fit for purpose.