36. The Great Australian Inferno with Kevin Rudd
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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It's 2020! We're back! It's the "super year" for climate and the most consequential decade in human history! This week Tom and Christiana talk with former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd. Kevin shows us the roots of why the Conservative Party in Australia and the Murdoch media empire are perpetuating a state of climate inaction, and why he's optimistic that the Australian fires are the turning point for humanity and our climate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to 2020. This is going to be a very consequential and important year and amongst the things that are happening this year is Christina and I are publishing a book. The future we choose, it's out on the 25th of February. |
| 0:12.4 | In both the United States and a UK |
| 0:15.3 | version that's right different covers same book you can go to we choose the future |
| 0:19.2 | com right now and pre-order yourself half a dozen copies. |
| 0:23.2 | And shall we share a couple of the comments that have been made on the book? |
| 0:26.5 | Christina and I are right now sitting in Davos, where we're here for the World Economic Forum, |
| 0:30.0 | and we are very honoured that Klaus Schwab, the CEO and founder of the World Economic Forum, |
| 0:35.0 | just gave us a quote in support of the book. |
| 0:38.0 | And he said, by showing us a clear picture of the possible futures, who we need to be and what we need to do. |
| 0:46.0 | This could be the most important wake-up call of our time. |
| 0:49.8 | Very nice. |
| 0:50.8 | Aiswab. |
| 0:52.2 | So please go to we choose the future.com pre-order your copy now. We're very excited for you |
| 0:56.7 | to read it on with the podcast. Hello and welcome to outrage and optimism. My name's Tom Riffitt Carnack. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Christina Fieres. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 1:18.0 | Today, we're back and we're going to be speaking about 2020 |
| 1:22.0 | why it is probably the most important year in the history of humanity. |
| 1:26.0 | And we speak to Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia about the Great Australian Inferno. |
| 1:32.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, so many very consequential things for the world have happened since we last saw you a few weeks ago, |
| 1:48.0 | but one thing that is almost zero consequence for the world, but huge consequence for us |
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