Scripting a safer future with Malka Older

Paul Skinner recently interviewed Dr Malka Older, humanitarian, academic, best-selling author of Infomocracy and Executive Director of ⁠Global Voices⁠, to explore how we can narrate our way to a safer world.

The discussion covered everything from how no one in real life reacts like they do in disaster movies, to the incredible importance of hearing all voices from all corners of the world and in all languages (not just the ones that we are familiar with).

Malka shared why she wrote the award-winning Centenal Cycle science fiction series and how her writing allows her to explore new ways we could structure our lives, our work and our politics.

Malka said, 'As a disaster researcher...we see again and again in personal experience and in literature that if you have no money but you have both community and organisation you are far better off than the other way around, than having a lot of money and a community where people are very divided and hate each other and no organisation in terms of what to do with the money.'

The conversation explored questions like, as wealthy western democracies are being hit by more and more disasters will we be able to come together to rebuild our divided communities to become more resilient? Or will we continue to think that our money and technology will be enough protect us?

Watch the full MarketingKind xChange below or listen to the podcast version here.