257. What If We Get It Right?
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Christiana shares her awe and admiration for the athletes at Paris’ Paralympics after being lucky enough to experience some of the games first-hand. Can these incredible athletes inspire us to think and act differently on climate change?
As global barometers measure the hottest August ever recorded, the hosts talk about extreme heat and its impact on children - affecting their health, their education and even placing them at increased risk of child marriage.
Tom quizzes Paul and Christiana about the events of 12th January 1882 (hint: coal-fired power stations) and celebrates the news that the UK will close its last coal-fired power station later this month. Paul meanwhile is emphatic that nations and businesses need A Plan to Decarbonise.
This week, Christiana is in conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, policy expert and writer. Ayana co-founded the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab, co-edited the bestselling climate anthology All We Can Save, and was the co-host of the How to Save a Planet podcast. Her upcoming anthology is What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures. Christiana and Ayana discuss the ocean’s bounty of climate solutions; renewable offshore energy, carbon-absorbing wetlands and mangroves, and seaweeds and shellfish to feed people.
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NOTES AND RESOURCES
Outrage + Optimism launches its new Listening Journeys
Recycled bottle tops and tables made from shuttlecocks - the greenest Olympics? BBC, July 2024
World’s warmest August completes hottest boreal summer on record, Copernicus Climate Change Service, September 2024
Summer 2024 is the hottest on record making it likely this will be the hottest year ever, Euronews, September 2024
Almost half a billion children live in areas experiencing at least twice as many extremely hot days as their grandparents, UNICEF report, August 2024
Bangladesh: IRC study reveals a staggering 39% surge in child marriage due to climate change, December 2023
Britain’s Reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years, FT, September 2024
Chris Stark to lead Mission Control to deliver clean power by 2030
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Tom Riffic Carnack. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Christina Figuetus. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Paul Diggans. |
| 0:18.0 | Today we talk about extreme heat and the end of coal in the UK, |
| 0:21.0 | plus we speak to Dr Iana Elizabeth Johnson. |
| 0:24.3 | Thanks for being. Oh, Hey friends welcome |
| 0:46.7 | welcome back nice to see you again back into the regular rhythm of |
| 0:49.4 | episodes it's lovely to be doing this again and we're going to jump |
| 0:52.1 | straight in to many of the important and consequential things have been happening this week |
| 0:56.6 | But before we do Christina you have had quite an inspiring week. Do you want to quickly tell us about it? |
| 1:01.5 | Oh my gosh, truly. |
| 1:05.0 | I mean I was just telling you that I don't remember |
| 1:09.0 | having been as deeply inspired as and moved. I mean I've been moved to tears which as you know is not |
| 1:16.7 | difficult for me but still I've been moved to tears during all of these four or five days that I have been in Paris here at the Paralympics |
| 1:28.0 | because you have to I mean you have to picture right a swimmer with no arms who jumps in the pool and |
| 1:39.9 | swims with the strength of his torso that he has obviously trained incredibly |
| 1:45.8 | and beats the world record not the Paralympic record, the world record, meaning beats all able-bodied swimmers. |
| 1:58.6 | That's amazing. |
| 2:00.6 | I mean, it's just mind-boggling unbelievable I saw of the the final of women's wheelchair basketball |
| 2:10.8 | Netherlands against the US and Netherlands won in the end but still all of them |
| 2:17.0 | these women playing basketball from their wheelchair with incredible speed back and forth back and forth up to the |
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