If We’re Governed by Dreams and Gossip, How Should We Respond

Summary

Extinction Rebellion co-founder Clare Farrell uses the play ‘Kyoto’ to argue that climate talks are driven by national myths like the American Dream, “stories we ‘go by’” that become “common sense”. The media, built for drama rather than facts, rarely names them. Her remedy: show such stories no longer work, then offer “a story of interdependence”.

Rationale

She reaches interdependence too, but by swapping stories. We’ve come to see the deeper layer as an orientation, grown more by how we live than what we’re told.