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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism, where we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue about building a sustainable future.
With Tom away, Christiana and Paul discuss the extreme and deadly heat waves facing multiple continents, news which is dominating the headlines. They review the details of the recently published Letter to Parties from the incoming COP president, which sets out his vision for what he thinks needs to be accomplished at COP28 later in the year. Also, they talk about the hard won law just passed by the European Parliament to restore degraded natural ecosystems.
Our special guest this week is Fiona Morgan, Chief Purpose Officer of Sail GP, an extraordinary international sailing competition. Hear about the Sail GP Impact League, in which athletes race to win two podiums - one for sporting performance and one for the planet. They bring us a fascinating conversation on how climate, sport, ocean and nature collide.
To close this week's episode, music comes from the Norwegian band Darling West, and their beautiful song ‘How I Wish’.
You still have time to submit your questions to our hosts for next week’s episode, email us at contact@globaloptimism.com or engage on our social media channels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Cristiana Fighettis and we do not have Tom, which is why Paul is going to guide us |
| 0:22.3 | today. |
| 0:23.3 | Yeah, he's very sad not to have Tom. He's in back in Plum Village actually with his |
| 0:27.3 | family taking a well-earned break. And so this week, we're going to talk about a few things. |
| 0:33.2 | We're going to sort of extreme weather unfolding around the globe. We're going to bring you |
| 0:36.6 | an wonderful interview with Fiona Morgan, the Chief Purpose Officer of Sail GP, and we've got |
| 0:41.9 | a recording of a live performance from Darling West with their song How I Wish. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:47.7 | So, Cristiana, I know we're going to start off with a slightly serious subject today, |
| 1:01.0 | which is extreme weather around the world. I slightly... Well, I'm using kind of weird self-depreciating |
| 1:10.4 | humour because it's a kind of way to respond to a bit of a crisis. Yeah, it's kind of extraordinary. |
| 1:17.8 | Entirely predicted, I think, you know, we might say, but yet so shocking when it arrives. How have |
| 1:24.2 | you felt what's been happening, Cristiana? No, these heat waves are really, you know, they're just |
| 1:30.2 | totally knocking my mind out of the park. It is... Honestly, it's difficult to conceive |
| 1:38.6 | that in certain parts of the globe, we are having heat temperatures that are higher than |
| 1:46.1 | anything that has been seen in a hundred thousand years. That it just doesn't sound like |
| 1:54.1 | humanity can possibly experience that. It doesn't sound like that. Okay, well, this is actually |
| 2:00.1 | 2023. We're having heat temperatures higher than the last hundred thousand years. It sounds... |
| 2:08.1 | I don't know. It sounds sort of like science fiction, and it is not fiction. This is exactly what |
| 2:15.0 | science has been telling us. Yes, of course, you have to shave off some of that because of a |
| 2:19.8 | needle effect, but here's the point, which we have been saying over and over and over again. |
| 2:26.1 | Yes, this is being accelerated or being taken to these extremes because of the overlap this year |
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