40. John Kerry is Here and He's Not Messing Around
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The most consequential event this year in climate is the 2020 U.S. Election. Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gets real with us on why some people should be held criminally liable for not acting on climate science, why he's optimistic about the future, and how climate as a voting issue can beat Donald Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone it's Tom here I just want to take a moment at the top of the episode to remind you that we have a book coming out and very excitingly I don't need to give you a date because I can give you a day because it's coming out on Tuesday |
| 0:11.4 | So we are very excited about this. The book is called The Future |
| 0:14.3 | We Choose. It's available to pre-order now. And at the beginning of each episode for the |
| 0:19.0 | last few weeks, I have been reading a quote from a friend who has had an advanced copy of the book and has read it and has liked it and has supported it. |
| 0:27.5 | But this being the last time before launch we're going to do something different. |
| 0:31.0 | We have quite a list of these people and together with my friends, |
| 0:35.0 | Christina and Paul and Clay who does the production that you probably know as well. We're just going to read you |
| 0:39.7 | the list. This is the list of people who have endorsed the book so far. |
| 0:43.0 | So far. |
| 0:44.0 | So far. |
| 0:45.0 | So far. |
| 0:46.0 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:47.0 | And there's 29, so we're going to try to do it as fast as possible. |
| 0:50.0 | Right. |
| 0:51.0 | Kristiana, you go first. |
| 0:52.6 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:54.0 | Al Gore, |
| 0:55.0 | En Hidalgo. |
| 0:56.0 | Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
| 0:58.0 | Ban Ki-moon. |
| 0:59.0 | Ben Van Burden. |
| 1:00.0 | Bertrand Picard. |
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