Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. I suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories.
— @adriennemaree, Emergent Strategy
Here’s a ballad directly-inspired by a podcast of the same name linked for you below—
Ballad of the Wind Rigger
O, ride on— future Wind Rigger. Go maintenance offshore giants, 2050 Turning wind turbines, powering 10 million By gusting flames of sea. Faring from Baltic to North waves To fix, re-rigging infrastructure, Sailing horizons towards circularity, Compass to the future. With sunset melting between giants And the dancing windranges repowered, You hang barbequing with friends afterwork, Joy giant and towering And we watch moonrise on wind giants Watching the futurerise with it Pyre-flood of powers shifting Sustainable viking spirit.
— Adam Powers
Climate Vision 2050 is a podcast that fast-forwards thirty years into the future to sing a song of how the world transforms solving for a better world in the face of climate.
It’s 2050 and we’re exploring how the world radically reduced carbon emissions and saved itself from climate catastrophe. What have our cities done to accommodate massive population growth? And how do businesses, governments, researchers and everyday people work together to build sustainable supply chains, agricultural practices and transportation infrastructure?
This poem was inspired by the first episode on harnessing offshore wind energy.