Your Brain On Climate
Your Brain On Climate
Dave Powell
The Activist Script, with Anthea Lawson
54 minutes Posted Jun 13, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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I am good. I protest. I save people. I must save the world - now. If this even slightly feels like something you've told yourself, then this episode is for you. Author and campaigner Anthea Lawson's brilliant new book is called How Not To Save The World. It's about the 'script' that activists - including her - tell ourselves, often without realising it. From this script, which can come from deep cultural and psychological places, comes many things that aren't much help - like burn...