It’s our last show of the year and that means we’ll take the opportunity to look back at the major news that happened around the world in 2024 – how much do you remember? Or perhaps it all became a blur? Or maybe you haven’t been paying attention at all and this is your chance to catch up in one go?

We’ll discuss geopolitical developments across the world, including the results of more than 50 per cent of the world’s population going to the polls. From elections to wars, what happens next is what we are all waiting to see - will everything get better, or a whole lot worse?

The climate has been off the charts this year, with extreme weather events hitting every corner of the globe, and the ramifications have been enormous, but it’s the wider impacts over time we often miss – financial impacts, permanent destruction, food security, and beyond. A lot of records were set in 2024 in the climate space – not good records!

Of course, technology, especially AI, is on everyone’s lips, plus we had Google achieve an amazing milestone this week, and we’ve seen wider technological progress you may not even be aware of – yes, the excitement of generating AI notes from our meetings is a small cog in a much bigger story. On the cultural front, it was a year of Taylor Swift and P Diddy, although we’re sure the latter wished he was in the formers seat right now – his court case will certainly get the world’s attention in 2025.

To help us wrap up the year, our first guest is Taryn-lee Kearney, from Johannesburg, South Africa. Tarryn is a CEO, industrial psychologist, global speaker, multifaceted facilitator, consultant and mental health advocate. She’s also the Boomchakalaka lady. Our second guest from Singapore is Natalie Nancy Tan, a dance fitness instructor, personal trainer, M.E.L.D Program Creator, resilience speaker, and transformation coach. Natalie has a mission - Empowering Women to Move from Victim to Victor with the 3R Framework: Realization, Resilience, Rejoice. We are convinced both ladies will bring super positive energy to the discussion.

The Livestream kicks off at 3pm Singapore time, Friday 13th December. Come and join us for our last show of the year.

The Know Show is a Livestream held every fortnight on Friday, where Andrea T Edwards, Tim Wade and Joe Augustin, and at least one special guest, review the news that’s getting everyone’s attention, as well as perhaps what requires our attention. We’ll talk about what it means to us, the world and we hope to inspire great conversations on the news that matters in the world today.

The Know Show is based on Andrea T Edwards Weekend Reads, which are published every Saturday on andreatedwards.com, and covers the planetary crisis, topical moments in the world, global politics and war, business and technology, social issues, and passion/humour/history. Join us.

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Cop29 has been deemed a failure as it only promised $300 billion to developing countries by the mid-30s. What’s even more challenging about this number is the percentage offered as loans, because countries already struggling with debt burdens taking on more debt to deal with a crisis not of their own making is amoral, not to forget, it’s not charity. Ensuring the developing world gets the funds required to transition to clean energy is a critical need for the world. Another vital pillar is financing for adaptation, because if we don’t, we will be overrun by record human migration – something that will cause even more challenges for our societies.

Beyond the needs of the developing world, we’re going to get personal. Are we aware of how the planetary crisis will impact our own pockets – regardless of how much wealth we have today? Are we preparing for it? As the planetary crisis escalates, with extreme weather events costing $2 trillion globally just in the last decade, how will that roll out and impact us individually? Insurance costs, pensions, investments, and beyond? What impact will all these extreme weather events have on our food, our homes, transportation, as well as air, water and on we could go? Are we ready to face this truth? Do we want to know what we should be doing right now to get prepared? Yes? Then join us for our last Livestream of the year.

To help us dig into this topic, we are delighted activist Robert Redmayne Hosking has agreed to come back and join us for a second week, because honestly, he has so much more to say. Robert is a lifelong nature and environmental enthusiast, and a conservationist at heart. Environmental and climate policies are his passion, and he is relentless on X, showing up with daily protests, as he works to shape the future of how leaders, governments and the media think. Robert speaks from the heart and tells it like it is, so get ready for an engaging and passionate conversation.

The economics of climate is a critical topic, so please do join us live Friday, 6th December – 3pm Singapore time, and 7am UK time, or listen to the recording after. Livestreaming to multiple locations.

Climate Courage is a livestream, held every two weeks and is co-hosted by Andrea T Edwards, Dr. David Ko and Richard Busellato. On the show, we cover critical topics across the full spectrum of the polycrisis, in everyday language, and we go big picture on the climate crisis, while also drilling down and focusing on the actions we can all take to be part of the solution. Whether individual action, community action, or national/global action - every single one of us can be part of ensuring a live-able future for our children and grandchildren. We owe them that!

#ClimateCourage #RethinkingChoices #UncommonCourage

To get in touch with me, all of my contact details are here https://linktr.ee/andreatedwards

My book Uncommon Courage, an invitation, is here https://mybook.to/UncommonCourage

My book 18 Steps to an All-Star LinkedIn Profile, is here https://mybook.to/18stepstoanallstar

What’s true? What’s not? How do we move forward when ‘truthiness’ is acceptable? How do we navigate complex times when basic facts are denied rigorously, something that is definitely not serving the common good? We have entered the era of denial and “enshittification,” a term invented by the sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, to describe online platforms and the process of their decay.

According to Rose Payne, she says you’ll recognize it immediately from pretty much any online service you’ve signed up to: “You enter into it, and at the beginning, it’s good, but once they have network effects, they degrade the quality of their offering. So, you’re trapped in a space that’s no longer useful to you.”

Based on the rapid departure or lack of participation from so many centrists in the social media discourse, and the dominance of extreme far right and extreme far left voices on all social media platforms, we are in a bit of a spot, don’t you think? We have critical issues on the horizon, which threaten to impact all of humanity, but when we have no consensus on what is the truth, along with the denial of expert opinion running rampart, where do we go from here?

It's just the three of us this week, as our guest was unable to make it, but it will be as fiery as ever, as we dig into a very complicated topic, as well as sharing the news happening around the world.

The Livestream kicks off at 3pm Singapore time, Friday 29th November. Come and join us.

The Know Show is a Livestream held every fortnight on Friday, where Andrea T Edwards, Tim Wade and Joe Augustin, and at least one special guest, review the news that’s getting everyone’s attention, as well as perhaps what requires our attention. We’ll talk about what it means to us, the world and we hope to inspire great conversations on the news that matters in the world today.

The Know Show is based on Andrea T Edwards Weekend Reads, which are published every Saturday on andreatedwards.com, and covers the planetary crisis, topical moments in the world, global politics and war, business and technology, social issues, and passion/humour/history. Join us.

#TheKnowShow #UncommonCourage

To get in touch with me, all of my contact details are here https://linktr.ee/andreatedwards

My book Uncommon Courage, an invitation, is here https://mybook.to/UncommonCourage

My book 18 Steps to an All-Star LinkedIn Profile, is here https://mybook.to/18stepstoanallstar