Can The Energy Crisis Finally Unite Us?

Climate debates are going nowhere. Highly ideological, they end in gridlock more often than solutions. And younger generations, long worried about living on a warming planet, are moving from anxiety to frustration, feeling like they’re left with all the problems but no decision-making power. The world needs a new approach. What new climate narratives, and which media messengers, will bring us together to effect progress across politics, state lines, national borders, and vast oceans? Featured guests: Carlos Curbelo (Former Florida U.S. Representative) Heela Rasool-Ayub (Director, Planetary Politics at New America) Kate Yoder (Senior Staff Writer, Grist) Moderated by Uwe Jean Heuser (Journalist and 2026 Thomas Mann Fellow) This program is co-presented by Thomas Mann House and Zócalo Public Square, in partnership with ASU Global Futures Laboratory and Palisadian-Post. Visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ for more programs, interviews and essays.