#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Remix)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 8/13/2021
Today we dig through the archives to give context to the news of the 2021 IPCC report ringing the alarm bells for the climate crisis
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The IPCC's new report - @greennewsreport - Air Date 4-3-14
Ch. 2: Green News Report w/ Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen - Air Date 8-10-21
New U.N. climate report described as 'code red for humanity'; California's Dixie Fire now the largest in the U.S. and in state history; PLUS: Apocalyptic scenes from wildfires around the world demonstrate climate change is already here...
Ch. 3: Global Water Shortages Pose Threat of Terror & War - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date 02-16-14
Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman dive into a troubling UN climate report and discuss how capitalism prevents humanity from saving itself while undermining democracy.
Ch. 5: Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change - Vox - Air Date 4-19-17
The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology.
Ch. 6: Report confirms the effect of climate change happening today, spurs action - @greennewsreport - Air Date 5-6-14
Ch. 7: When Republicans believed in climate change - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date 04-22-14
Geoff Mann, professor of geography at Simon Fraser University and co-author of the book, Climate Leviathan, discusses the authoritarian dangers ahead, as the world tried to cope with climate change.
Ch. 9: Climate crisis and jobs with Naomi Klein - What Comes After What Comes Next - Air Date 6-11-20
Naomi has spent two decades documenting the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster. She has also written extensively about how tackling the climate crisis can both create jobs and make the economy much fairer and more equitable.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Doug talks extreme heat with Dr. Ladd Keith, Assistant Professor in Planning and Chair of Sustainable Built Environments at the University of Arizona. Ladd and Doug discuss the media coverage of the recent pacific NW heat wave.
Ch. 11: Putting the Freeze on Global Warming - @BillMoyersHQ And Company - Air Date 4-25-14
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the benefits of taking pride in work and country
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Fire engulfs trees in a forest at night. Smoke billows in the dark sky above the flaming, skeletal black trees.
Credit: "The Rim Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest near in California began on Aug. 17, 2013 and is under investigation. The fire has consumed approximately 149, 780 acres and is 15% contained. U.S. Forest Service photo." by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Flickr | License | Changes: Cropped
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall dig |
| 0:07.9 | through the archives to give context to the news of the 2021 IPCC report ringing the alarm bells |
| 0:15.2 | for the climate crisis. We're trying something new for this episode so be sure to let us know what |
| 0:19.7 | you think about it. We got thinking about the immense value that we have stored up in our own |
| 0:26.2 | archives. You know I've been doing this since 2006. There's a lot of nuggets of gold buried in |
| 0:31.9 | the sort of geologic layers of this podcast feed and so we started to think maybe we could make |
| 0:37.6 | a better use of those gold nuggets by creating remixes that include both new and archival audio |
| 0:45.7 | and that's what we're doing today. So clips today are from the Green News report from 2014 |
| 0:51.4 | as well as the Green News report from 2021. The David Pakman show from 2014, the Muck Rake political |
| 0:58.1 | podcast from this year, Vox from 2017, all in with Chris Hayes from 2014, economics and beyond |
| 1:06.0 | with Rob Johnson from 2021, what comes after what comes next from 2020, America adapts from 2021 |
| 1:15.2 | and Bill Moyers and company from 2014. Well on Monday the United Nations Intergovernmental |
| 1:27.5 | Panel on Climate Change released its latest report detailing the impacts of climate change, |
| 1:32.7 | not just in coming decades, but impacts that are already hitting across all sectors of human |
| 1:38.8 | society right now, from water to energy to our food supply from agriculture and the oceans. |
| 1:53.2 | That was the lead author of the new report Dr. Chris Field. Now the head of the IPCC Dr. |
| 1:58.8 | Rajendra Pachari warned that unless we swiftly ramp down our greenhouse gas emissions, |
| 2:04.4 | we risk pushing the climate beyond our ability to adapt as a species. Nobody on this planet is |
| 2:10.4 | going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change. If the world doesn't do anything about |
| 2:15.9 | mitigating the emissions of the greenhouse gases, then the very social stability of human systems |
| 2:22.0 | could be at stake. Oh that's all. Yeah that's all. However the IPCC report does offer some hope |
| 2:28.0 | while some serious impacts are already baked in and unavoidable. The window of opportunity has not |
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