243. Microplastics, Transition Plans and The Beginning of The End of The Climate Crisis?

Outrage + Optimism

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, our hosts each arrive with one specific issue they feel freshly outraged or optimistic about. Tom talks about how Earth Day 2024 will come to be known as the beginning of the end of the climate crisis. Christiana is outraged (and a tiny bit optimistic) about the plastics pandemic. And Paul gets fired up about investor and corporate transition plans - can he convince his co-hosts to ‘light the blue touch paper’ and ignite their own optimism?

Music comes from Cosmo Sheldrake with his song, “Soil”. Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. As part of the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live’s new initiative Sounds Right, Cosmo has shared this new track “Soil (feat. NATURE)”, a homage to the powerful transformative and generative capacities of subterranean ecosystems. Money raised will go towards conservation projects around the world.

NOTES AND RESOURCES

The Babies vs Plastics Report

23 - 29 April 2024 in Canada - The Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Outrage and optimismism. I'm Tom Rifik Karnak.
0:15.0	I'm Christina Figueroge.
0:17.0	And I'm Paul Dickinson.
0:18.0	This week coming to you from New York, we discuss things we're Outraged and Optomistic about and we have music from Cosmos Sheldon.
0:24.0	Thanks for being here. Oh, So aside from being the most generalized introduction I've ever provided there because I didn't quite know what to say
0:50.3	it's nice to see you both Christina what a beautiful New York morning we're getting to experience it's nice to see you both. Christina what a beautiful New York
0:53.0	morning we're getting to experience it's one of this lovely blue crisp
0:56.2	mornings in New York we've been here for a couple of days. Paul you and I were in
0:59.7	DC last week this is the beginning of a long trip that I've got across the United States
1:03.8	happily seeing both of you. How are you both doing? What's going on in your lives?
1:08.0	Well you know Tom, I was trying to do the Tom Rivet-Karnack thing yesterday morning.
1:14.0	What is the Tom Rivet-Karnack thing?
1:17.0	Well, the Tom Rivet-Karnack thing is do not ever sit at your desk for a work call, put in your air pods and take your phone and go for as long and as beautiful a walk as possible.
1:30.8	So I was very inspired by that and I put in my Airpods and my phone and I tried to pretend that I was
1:38.7	you.
1:39.8	And I went for a long absolutely spectacular walk in in Central Park in New York where everything is
1:47.3	blooming it is so gorgeous the cherry trees the lilacs there are even some daffines there still for me, which is quite a tree.
1:56.6	Jana's favorite flower, daffodils.
1:58.2	My favorite flower daffodils.
2:00.6	So it was really, really beautiful.
2:02.6	However, I was exhausted last night
2:04.7	because I did so much walking.
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