This week we're sitting down with a real life time-traveller! This isn't Doc Brown's time machine but get your Delorean ready all the same because today we're meeting Rob Hopkins: the dreamer who swapped despair for design, and convinced thousands of people to board a time machine with him. In this episode, we're sitting down with the co-founder of the Transition movement - a guy who's spent two decades making hope normal again, not through rose-tinted optimism, but through something far more radical: imagination.

Rob's been to 2030. He's seen the bicycle rush hours, the rooftop farms, the moment when we finally stopped waiting for permission and started building the world we actually wanted. He share's his time-travelling journey through his brand new book "How to Fall in Love with the Future". But it's not science fiction. It's evidence-based dreaming, sewn together from futures that are already happening in pockets across the globe.

This conversation lives in the third space between performative optimism and crushing nihilism. We talk about why communities are our strongest renewable resource, what it really means to fall in love with a future you haven't seen yet, and why imagination itself has become the most underrated act of rebellion in our age.

If you've ever felt paralysed between guilt and powerlessness, or wondered whether another world is actually possible - this one's for you. Because Rob Hopkins doesn't just talk about the future. He makes you fall in love with it.

This is Turning the Tide: A brand new Roots Media production. The tide is turning. The only question is, will you listen in as tomorrow gets written?

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