You’ve journeyed with us through the valleys of the Himalayas, to the humid expanses of southern India, and across the ocean to the windswept eastern coast of Australia. Despite climate change undermining their vital life support systems, the communities we’ve met are acting collectively and creatively to reimagine their future and tackle the climate crisis head on. In doing so, they are creating new imaginaries. However, we can’t escape the fact that their courageous action is set against the harsh reality of the broader economic, social and political systems that remain addicted to extraction and development.

The final episode of Reimagined Futures reflects on what we can learn from these communities. What inspires grounded imaginaries, and what gets in the way? How are communities keeping hope alive in the face of national and global systems that block transformation at every turn? And how can you become involved in driving change locally as part of a global movement towards a more just and sustainable world?

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Credits Narrated by: Danielle Celermajer Written by: Danielle Celermajer Edited by: Genevieve Wright

We conclude the series in Perumbakkam, a community of resettlement sites in the southern Indian city of Chennai, one of the cities in South Asia most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As a result of the government’s response to flood mitigation, marginalised communities are displaced to the outskirts of the city. In this episode, we hear from the community members involved in the housing rights organisation, Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC). They’ll discuss how the community now feels empowered with their issues and ideas being represented by IRCDUC in government decision-making. They’ll illustrate the importance of centring social justice and community engagement in responding to the effects of climate change. Imagining a different future is particularly difficult in Perumbakkam but be inspired as we hear from the community members envisioning ways to transform sites of exclusion into homes.

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Credits Narrated by: Rohit Nair Written by: Rohit Nair Edited by: Aston Brown, Genevieve Wright Featuring: - Vanessa Peter is the Founder of the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities and a policy researcher ad social activist. - Mercy M and Mahalaxmi are Community Fellows from the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities. - Karen Coelho is an Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. Karen’s research interest include urban anthropology including critical examinations of urban collective action, urban infrastructure including housing, shelter policies and resettlement schemes. - Natasha Thomas (English translations)

Being a cold desert even higher up in the Himalayas, the Ladakhi landscape is rugged and harsh for people and nature alike. Their survival is under threat because of untimely glacial melts, altered river systems and mismanaged interventions by local governing bodies. We'll discover how this ecosystem has been altered over the last two decades, and what its youth are doing today to mitigate their intensifying water crises.

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Credits Narrated by: Ishika Ramakrishna Written by: Ishika Ramakrishna, Mayank Shah, VPJ Sambhavi Edited by: Ishika Ramakrishna, Genevieve Wright Featuring: - Lobzang Wangtak is the co-founder of Navikarana Trust and Zanskar Conservancy Movement. Lobzang and his colleagues at Navikarana Trust have worked tirelessly to provide water to the people of Zanskar by lifting the water from the nearby spring in a sustainable way through solar water pumping. In 2021, the Pishu Village finally got water lifted to their village through Lobzang’s intervention and community collaboration and now more than 20 villages are in need of his help. Without any institutional support Lobzang’s work relies on public funding or NGOs support. To support the incredible work Lobzang and his team are doing, contact him here. - Dawa Dolma is a Tibetan and independent journalist from Leh. Dawa was a Youth Fellow on the Western Himalayan team. Dawa writes on earth stories from Ladakh in local journals, NGO newsletters and digital media.