Andrew Revkin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
harness a passion, build a blog, either alone or with others, that notches the world a little bit towards some better outcome.
And so there was a musician who did a thing on musicians who use their art for their work for making the world better.
Some of it was like music therapy, you know, bands contributing money, whatever.
Another one did, her blog was on comfort food.
all around the world.
And I thought it was my favorite.
It was a video.
I think it should be viral actually.
It was like looking at the world, every different cultures.
She was in Queens.
So every culture, every cuisine is there in Queens, 200 countries, right?
But she would go and talk to people's moms and have them cook the food of that country that's their comfort food.
I mean, I just love this because we all need to eat.
And you're getting this expanded sense of what comfort is by thinking about what other cultures choose.
And that felt like a great course because it was not directive.
It was just...
And when I was thinking about climate or confronting climate change, it felt like some of the things I learned about my own existence.
I'm gonna die, but you don't really absorb that.
That was like my first like, yeah, this is really the shit, or at least deep disability, if not death.
And that ability is transitory.