35. Richard Curtis Has an Optimism That Comes From His Outrage
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Tom and Christiana interview producer Richard Curtis. Richard is the creator of Bridget Jones Diary, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Love Actually - but Richard's social work with Comic Relief, Make Poverty History, and the 10:10 campaign are equally as inspiring.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Tom Riveik Karnak. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Christina Figuettes. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:20.0 | This week we talk about what just happened in Madrid at COP25 and we bring you an |
| 0:25.9 | interview with filmmaker Richard Curtis thanks for being here. |
| 0:38.1 | Okay guys so this is effectively the morning after the morning after the morning after the morning after hangovers are still in place a bit after the negotiations. |
| 0:44.0 | There's also been an election, but we're not going to talk about that today. |
| 0:48.0 | So what we'd like to do in this episode is to kind of begin to dig to dig into how should we think about what just |
| 0:57.3 | happened in Madrid. There's a lot of hand-ringing, there's a lot of anxiety, some of it is probably well placed, other parts of |
| 1:05.0 | it are no doubt and overreaction, but we'll dig into all of that. |
| 1:08.9 | But I just wanted to start... |
| 1:09.9 | Sorry, I mean you're referring to the conference of the Parties of the U and F Trouble C that just completed in Madrid. |
| 1:15.6 | Gotcha. |
| 1:16.6 | Thank you, Paul. |
| 1:17.6 | I confess to living so firmly within this world sometimes that maybe I don't contextualize it. |
| 1:21.2 | I appreciate you saying that. |
| 1:23.3 | So to just start us off, I wanted to read a selection of the top news items that are |
| 1:30.4 | currently coming up on Google if you search for COP25. |
| 1:33.0 | And you know, I think you'll see a trend. |
| 1:35.0 | So there are words like COP25 ends in staggering failure, |
| 1:41.0 | climate negotiation ends in sad sputter. Another year for the climate |
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