43. Coronavirus and The Climate Crisis + Live #TheFutureWeChoose Q+A!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
With everyone grounded because of COVID-19, Tom and Paul dial each other from their homes in the UK to discuss just what Coronavirus is bringing to light about how we respond to a crisis. We manage to get Christiana on the phone for an update from the book tour in Australia, and we play the incredible live Q+A from #TheFutureWeChoose book event in Washington D.C.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to outrage and. This week we discuss the coronavirus outbreak and the |
| 0:17.5 | week we discuss the coronavirus outbreak and the implications and lessons for climate change. |
| 0:23.0 | Plus we talk to Christina in Australia about the political situation she's encountering there |
| 0:28.0 | and we bring you an audience question and answer session from our recent book tour. |
| 0:33.1 | Thanks for being here. Right, so this week we're all in different places. I'm back home in Somerset and the West of England |
| 0:51.9 | Paul is in London and Christianas in Australia. |
| 0:54.6 | I've been grounded as a result of the coronavirus like so many of our listeners I'm sure |
| 0:59.2 | as a result of the fact that my kids school had a policy that if you went to one of these target areas where there is a lot of coronavirus, |
| 1:06.0 | you have to then exclude yourself and your kids. So Christina's gone on her own. |
| 1:10.0 | So she's not joining us at this point, but we are going to give her a call in about 10 minutes or so to figure out what she's finding there. |
| 1:18.0 | Because of course she has stepped into a political maelstrom off the back of the fires in Australia and now the subsequent |
| 1:26.9 | refusal of the government to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation. |
| 1:30.6 | So we're going to dig into the coronavirus outbreak first but Paul first of all how are you how's everything going at CDP? |
| 1:36.3 | Yeah no I'm fine and I thank you for asking my the organization that I I primarily represent the CDP is doing very well in many regards but I think |
| 1:48.7 | it's impossible to not address something unprecedented in my 55 years living on earth. |
| 1:58.5 | I mean this morning we're recording actually on the on the 12th of March. This morning I discovered that the two |
| 2:06.1 | largest economic areas in the world the European Union and the United States |
| 2:10.5 | have suspended air travel for 30 days and you know this is not like |
| 2:18.0 | World War II or something it's not it's not a it's not a situation of that severity |
| 2:22.2 | but it's certainly my own it's my first living |
| 2:25.0 | experience of an interruption of that scale which in terms of the impact on |
| 2:31.4 | people's lives, the disruption caused, is far larger than, for |
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