Burning Questions: Where’s the Leverage to Address Compounding Crises?

Two Post Carbon Institute advisors walk into a podcast — and the conversation is one you won’t want to miss.

Leslie Davenport’s new podcast, Burning Questions: Conversations About Our Living World, brings together thought leaders navigating the emotional, strategic, and relational dimensions of our planetary moment. In this episode, Leslie is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin to explore something both timely and timeless: how do we find leverage for transformation when the crises keep compounding?

Together, they dig into the emotional terrain of climate work within the polycrisis, and why the most powerful response isn’t necessarily doing more but doing things that work on multiple levels at once. Elizabeth’s concept of “multisolving” reframes what’s possible when we act in accordance with the living web of ecological, social, and political relationships rather than ignoring or opposing it. Every scale of action matters. Every choice plants a seed for the future we want to grow.

This is climate work that doesn’t ask you to set aside your humanity. It asks you to bring all of it.

Watch the episode here or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, and while you’re there, explore the full series featuring thinkers and activists at the forefront of this work.

Learn more about Leslie here and Elizabeth here.