This is Elle, producer Alex here. We're in week two of a two-week break. Chuck is back at it on Monday,

but until then we're playing 20 2021 favorites picked by listeners.

And today we're revisiting an April interview with writer Ben Aaron Wright on his article,

We're hurtling toward global suicide for the New Republic. Thanks to Joel and suicide for the new republic.

Thanks to Joel and Pete for the pick.

And thanks to everyone who sent in guests and topic suggestions and feedback in 2021.

Really appreciate hearing from you.

Let's do it again in 2022.

All right, here's Ben Aaron Reich on Global Suicide. Happy New Year.

This is hell.

If we only had a president who listened to scientists and believed in science, then we could finally have a president who would finally fight climate change.

Joe Biden was supposed to be that president and judging by everything he said in the

first few weeks of his presidency things are very promising but there's the science that says the root cause of climate changes

Run away economic growth and that's the kind of science that seemingly no politician in the US from either party is willing to believe. Returning to this is hell,

writer Ben Aaron Reich wrote the new republic article,

we're hurtling toward global suicide and Ben by the way congratulations on quite a cheery headline there

Thanks Chuck it's great to be back and in 2011 you won the National magazine

award for the Los Angeles Magazine article, the National Magazine

article, the end, what really happens after you die?

So why is such cheery writing then?

Oh, you know know I keep saying that at some point I'm going to really

dig in and write the book about puppies that I've always been wanting to write but I I keep getting distracted by, you know, horrible things.

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