{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fperspectives-with-sharon-pearson-cd08217f.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F87574fd0-H7TrHzf7","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"No Planet B | #PERSPECTIVES with Sharon Pearson | Season 2 Episode 15","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a0db931b-7fbe-4b15-9484-011dc7220977/0b4dfb24-3718-44ce-9ace-245cd2152881/1.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Two years ago, social researcher Rebecca Huntley, author of How To Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference, pledged to dedicate the rest of her personal and professional life to the climate change cause because of her three young children. “I spend years getting them to brush their teeth and learn to swim and do their times tables,” she says. “I realised I have a responsibility as a parent to do everything I can to ensure there is an actual viable world for these children with good teeth, who can swim and know how to do their times tables.” She acknowledges in the #Perspectives podcast ‘Red Alert’ or ‘Hot Button Topic’ that the environmental movement has a serious PR problem. She tells Sharon Pearson about the imperatives facing our planet, why she’s excited about renewable energy, the surprising group of Australians who are most disengaged from the issue of climate change and what we can do as individuals and a society to put the brakes on. "}