112. The Nature of Nature: Why We Need The Wild with Enric Sala
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 31 July 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week, we take an unflinching look at the impacts of the recent extreme global weather events as they provide a grim backdrop to the G20 meeting in Naples, the informal meeting of ministers representing 51 countries in London at the weekend, and the IPCC summary report by Working Group 1. This highly anticipated report is set to provide the up-to-the-moment science on future warming and future effects of warming. It’s a big deal, especially with of COP26 right around the corner.
So, with the lack of consensus on ending fossil fuels subsidies and phasing out coal among the G20 delegates and environmental ministers in London, combined with the anticipated stark report due from the IPCC, leads us to ask: how much more devastation can we suffer before climate change is recognised for the existential threat it poses?
Our guest this week Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and founder of National Geographic Pristine Seas. He brings us the optimism on protecting our marine life, and how we can avoid mass biodiversity loss and depletion of our fish stock and prevent further catastrophes to human and natural communities, if we act now on 30x30.
And later on in the episode, join us for Elle L’s debut avant-pop track, “Hoping”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Tom Rificarnak. Tom, you're back and I'm |
| 0:17.6 | Cristiana Fiatis, I'm back too. And I'm Paul Dickinson and they're back! We're back |
| 0:22.5 | and Paul has not burned the house down. We're thrilled to be back. Well done Paul, we'll |
| 0:26.4 | get into that. What a try of your last few weeks. We're back with the final episode of this |
| 0:31.6 | series before our summer break. We have a great episode for you. We speak about the extreme |
| 0:37.0 | weather events and what's been happening around the world over the last few weeks. We |
| 0:40.7 | speak to Enrique Salad, the remarkable founder of the Pristine Seas Initiative and National |
| 0:45.9 | Geographic Explorer in Residence. And we have music from LL. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:56.4 | So this is going to be an interesting and tough episode. It's been a remarkable and deeply |
| 1:10.6 | disturbing few weeks around the world. If you look and we'll get into the sort of litany |
| 1:14.8 | of terrible things that have been happening to people from countries north and south and |
| 1:19.1 | east and west. And we'll get into that and we'll look at what it means for the future |
| 1:23.2 | as well as the upcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
| 1:26.0 | But first, Paul, congratulations. We left you at home. You watered the house plants. |
| 1:31.3 | You didn't kill the pets. The house is still standing. How do you feel about being a |
| 1:35.2 | solo podcaster? Are you still with us? Are you leaving us for a lucrative contract |
| 1:38.6 | at a larger and more important news outlet? I mean, a discussions with a lot of people |
| 1:43.1 | now, to be honest with you, a lot of people still haven't heard from Spotify, still haven't |
| 1:48.2 | heard from Spotify. But most of the other major networks are talking to me and, you know, |
| 1:52.6 | heartbreaking not being with you, too. But now you're back. I feel replete, complete. |
| 1:58.2 | And thank you very much indeed to Catherine and Alice for coasting with me and trying to |
| 2:01.7 | fill your impossibly oversized shoes. They were great. Christianity, do you listen to |
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