167. We Like To Call It Piñata Syndrome
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to a brand new season of Outrage + Optimism! We have missed you, friends!
This summer break in the Global North was yet another massive climate summer with much to talk about.
We kick off this jam-packed episode acknowledging the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II with personal reflections from the hosts Christiana, Tom and Paul as well as a touching conversation with Henry Dallal, a photographer who was regularly commissioned to capture Queen Elizabeth during the last few decades of her reign.
Christiana offers us a unique insight from Gastech, the world's largest gas, LNG, hydrogen, and energy event that saw lone-climate-advocate Christiana deliver a strong speech to 40,000 executives on their role and moral duty to tackle emissions in their industry. A speech that is not to be missed and you can watch the full version here.
The hosts turn their attention to the key events of the summer that offered the global community both hope and sorrow as the world watched with keen optimism as the implications of Biden’s IRA legislation unfolded, Australia successfully passed a key climate bill through government, and India, Australia and Egypt submitted new NDCs ahead of UNGA and COP 27.
With heavy hearts however Christiana, Tom and Paul considered the devastating impact of the Pakistan floods that left a third of the country under water, mass crop failure, many lives lost including children, and vital infrastructure destroyed. The very real impacts of climate change are already hitting so many people in the global south, that issues of loss and damage and financial aid from the global north must surely form part of the discussions between world leaders in this year’s big climate events.
We will of course be here throughout the rest of the season with the help of our very special guests, to bring you all the insights and analysis from these big events.
Notes and Resources
Thank you to our phone guest this week, Henry Dallal!
Henry Dallal | Photographer
Be sure to check out Henry Dallal’s Book, ‘Addressing Climate Change’
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Thank you to our musical guest this week, Gabriela Eva!
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Check out Gabriela’s lyric video for ‘Pulling Faces In The Wind’
Be sure to spin ‘Feng Shui’ this weekend!
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There’s a solar-powered boombox in a park in Queens, NYC that plays LL Cool J’s music from noon to 5p every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and yes it’s 100% real.
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Listen to Tom’s appearance on our sister-podcast, ‘The Way Out Is In’!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism, I'm Tom Ruffick-Karnak. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Cristiano Pigeras and I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome to Season 6, this is our first episode we're back after the summer away and we'll |
| 0:23.5 | be catching up today on what's been going on over the last couple of months. |
| 0:27.4 | Cristiano and I dial up an old friend, one of the Queen's Photographers Henry DeLal |
| 0:32.2 | and we have music from Gabriella Eva, thanks for being here. |
| 0:46.4 | So friends, welcome back to the podcast, we've been out for a few weeks over summer as we always are |
| 0:51.9 | and we're now back with a new season, Season 6 and we're excited to get into what's been happening |
| 0:57.1 | over the last few months and also what's ahead before the end of the year. |
| 1:01.2 | But we have to start by saying that today is Friday the 9th of September, we're recording |
| 1:06.0 | this episode, we're all in the UK and it is 24 hours since the news broke that her Majesty |
| 1:11.7 | the Queen has passed away. This is the end of an era, she's been on the throne for 70 years. |
| 1:18.5 | One of the pieces of information that really struck me when this news was breaking |
| 1:22.8 | is that her first Prime Minister when she came to the throne, Winston Churchill was born in the |
| 1:28.6 | mid 1870s, she was a living link deep into history and a timescale we don't usually think about |
| 1:35.9 | and was a connection but all that's happened in those intervening years, in international politics, |
| 1:41.4 | in human development and of course in the environment. So many changes as we as a world have tried |
| 1:48.0 | to get on top of these transformations and she's been able to see deep into that past and bring |
| 1:54.2 | that wisdom to the world we're now trying to create. We're going to miss her enormously of course |
| 1:59.4 | all of us are, she's fundamentally changed the UK and to a degree the world. So let's just start |
| 2:05.5 | there with reflections from either of you and then we'll hear a few additional reflections |
| 2:10.5 | from her official photographer and our friend Henry De Laal and you won't want to miss that, |
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