What if the answer to climate anxiety isn't more data, but more play? Lil Milagro Henriquez is the founder and executive director of Mycelium Youth Network, where she's helping young people build climate resilience through radical imagination. What I’m taking away from this episode:

• Dreaming isn't frivolous. In this moment of collective failure of imagination, making space to dream huge isn't a luxury. It's a first step in building the futures that we’ll want to inhabit.
• Climate education should prepare people for the world they'll actually live in. Our current system pretends the world will stay roughly the same for the next 20-30 years. What if instead, we created space to confront the grief of what we’re losing and then showed young people the hundreds of real solutions and careers they could pursue?
• Go ahead, let young people create solutions. It's "surprisingly radical" that if you give young people the opportunity to express a concern and create a solution, they will. So ... maybe we adults should ask ourselves why is this radical. Or better yet, we could just create more spaces where youth can actually do this work.

• Lil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lil-milagro-henriquez-b5997391/
• Website: myceliumyouth.org
• Instagram: @myceliumyouth

• Mycelium Youth Network: Oakland-based nonprofit using gaming and traditional ecological knowledge for climate resilience education.
• Gaming for Justice: Mycelium Youth Network’s original immersive experience that is designed, drawn, and soundtracked by SF Bay area artists. Using a combination of oral storytelling, visuals, and music, the game explores the history (and future!) of the San Francisco Bay Area with a specific focus on Oakland, California.
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline: The Indigenous futurism novel Lil references about people who retain the ability to dream in a world where most have lost it.
• 2017 California Wildfires: More than 10,000 structures were destroyed across the state, and more than 9,000 fires burned a total of 1,248,606 acres.

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