16. "Thank You for Being Late" with Tom Friedman

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Persephonica

Society, Policy, Finance, News, Current Affairs, Society & Culture, Green, Environment, Energy, Business, Planet, Science, Climate

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

While we're still all on holiday or out to lunch, the climate is still changing. Our co-host Tom joins us with his daughter, Zoe, and her friend, Bethan, for an insightful brief on what 8 and 10 year olds can be doing to save the environment. Later in the episode Christiana runs into Tom Friedman (Best-selling author and Pulitzer prize winning NYT columnist) and they sit down to discuss why Tom believes the 2020 US election is "the most important election of my lifetime" and why Trump is "the American President that China deserves." Woah. Listen in to find out what he means.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and
0:15.0	I'm Tom Riveik Karnak.
0:17.0	I'm Zoey Karnak and I'm Beth Robinson.
0:20.0	As you can hear, I have managed to find replacements for Paul and Christina as co-host on this week's episode of Outrage and optimism as we are all still on holiday.
0:28.0	I'm down here in Cornwall.
0:29.0	Zoe is my daughter. How old are you Zoe?
0:32.0	A. And Beth is a friend. How old are you Zoe? A. And Beth is a friend.
0:34.0	How old are you back?
0:35.0	10.
0:37.0	10 million. So this week we're going to be bringing you a conversation that Christina had with
0:47.8	Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist and author most recently of thank you for
0:52.3	being late.
0:53.0	But just before we do that, I wanted to have a quick conversation with both of you.
0:58.0	You're both very thoughtful kids with lots of ideas about the world and you know about climate change and have all sorts of ideas
1:05.6	about what we need to do to work to protect the world and the plants and animals and people
1:10.4	in it. But I wanted to start off by having a conversation and asking you if
1:14.6	there was anything environmental or climate related that you're particularly
1:18.2	passionate about and things that you want to do and projects that you run. Beth
1:22.1	let's start with you.
1:23.7	I'm really concerned about the plastic and the ocean because we live in Kormel and I really
1:28.7	like marine biology and animals, so it's really sad to see loads of plastic everywhere.
1:35.2	And when we go and walks and things,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Persephonica, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Persephonica and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.