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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

23. Innovating Breakthroughs with Sir Richard Branson

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Persephonica

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

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's been a busy week at the UNGA! We signed The Climate Pledge with Jeff Bezos from Amazon, saw world leaders stepping up their climate ambition, heard Greta Thunberg's scathing speech, and even had time to fire up the ol' anti-echo machine. Later in the episode we catch a few minutes with Sir Richard Branson, the man behind Virgin. We get into the green innovations he is working on, and discuss his bigger vision on how airline travel becomes sustainable.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone. It's Tom here.

0:02.0

Hello, this is Christina.

0:03.6

And we are together. We want to take a minute of your time because we have a very exciting

0:08.1

announcement.

0:09.1

We have finally written a book.

0:12.4

We have been wanting to write a book for some time and

0:15.1

we have pretty much finished it. What's the title Christina? The title is

0:19.4

the future we choose and the subtitle is surviving the climate crisis and we've called

0:26.1

it that because we believe that we have reached the last moment at which we can

0:31.0

choose to create a more positive, hopeful, constructive future

0:36.0

than the one that we will receive by default, which is none of those things.

0:40.0

So it comes out on February 25th?

0:42.1

Yes, which is a long time away.

0:43.6

So we're sorry we're announcing it so far in advance,

0:45.8

but we put a press release out,

0:47.1

so we wanted to share it with you.

0:48.6

We're very excited about it.

0:50.3

And we will be sharing more details about the book between now and then.

0:53.5

Very good.

0:54.5

All right, here's the show. Hello and I'm Tom Riffic Karnak. I'm still Christina Figuero's.

1:04.0

And I've always been Paul Dickinson.

1:08.0

Hello, and welcome to Outrage and Optimism.

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