197. What If Our Best Times Are Ahead Of Us?
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another bumper episode of Outrage + Optimism!
This week we kick off with a rather triumphant Paul Dickinson revelling in the news that Fox News personality, Tucker Carlson, has parted ways with the corporation. First David Malpass, now Tucker Carlson... We can’t help but wonder who else features on Paul’s mysterious list? Don’t worry Tom, you are quite safe. For now…
Christiana, Tom and Paul cover other big news in the US including Biden’s re-election bid; a White House commitment to put $1 billion into the Green Climate Fund; the announcement of the launch of Carbon Management Challenge; and an anticipated Biden vs Trump showdown. The recent G7, IMF and World Bank gatherings also come under the hosts scrutiny.
Our interview this week is with two formidable and fantastic women: (Mama) Mary Robinson (Chair of the Elders) and Hafsat Abiola, (President, Women in Africa (WIA) Initiative), who together have launched Project Dandelion, an incredible initiative that has grown out of the Connected Women Leaders network.
Finally, we play a brief clip featuring Mary Robinson taken from a short film entitled How Do We Get the World Off Fossil Fuels Quickly and Fairly? This film, recently made and released by our fantastic friends and partners over at TED Countdown serves as the second installment of their brilliant TED Countdown Dilemma Series. Be sure to watch the many varied viewpoints offered by an impressive line-up of guests here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, and before we start, we have to make a very exciting announcement. |
| 0:06.5 | We would like to share that we are celebrating our fourth anniversary. |
| 0:11.1 | We released our first episode interviewing Sir David Attenborough exactly four years |
| 0:17.4 | ago in 2019 on April 25th to be exact. |
| 0:22.6 | So we are celebrating four years. |
| 0:25.7 | We are celebrating our listeners, we are celebrating the progress that we have seen in climate |
| 0:31.0 | change and we are still outraged that the progress is still not enough. |
| 0:37.2 | But happy anniversary to outrage and optimism and all our listeners. |
| 0:44.6 | And now for the episode. |
| 0:56.7 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism, I'm Tom Ravikkarnak. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm Cristiana Piedes. |
| 1:03.7 | And I'm Paul Vigginson. |
| 1:05.3 | This week we talk about big news in the US. |
| 1:07.6 | We touch on the meetings of the World Bank and the IMF from last week and the G7 summit |
| 1:11.7 | in Japan. |
| 1:12.7 | Plus we speak to Mary Robinson and Hasfa Abiola, thanks for being here. |
| 1:25.7 | So we have a lot to crack through this week, nice to see you both. |
| 1:35.1 | First of all, thank you everyone for diving into the live show last week. |
| 1:37.7 | We so enjoy you. |
| 1:38.7 | We're definitely going to do more of these. |
| 1:40.5 | It's a really personal triumph for Paul who's been pushing us to do these for ages. |
| 1:43.7 | Paul, you were right. |
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