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We've always known that stories shape the way we see the world. It's the very foundation that Climatopia is built on. But there is a dimension of storytelling we haven't yet explored: one that sits at the heart of how our economies are organised, how resources are allocated, and ultimately, how the living world is treated. That dimension is narrative economics. The term was formalised by Nobel laureate Robert Shiller, who argued that the stories circulating in a society drive

20th-century ecology thinker Aldo Leopold wrote in his novel A Sand County Almanac, “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” If we want to effect this kind of transformation and tell a story that establishes nature as a community to which we belong, a family of which we are a mere part, I believe that the change has to begin with the language we use. T