59. Richard Curtis Wants to Make Your Money Matter
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week, a LIVEstream episode! We were joined by activist and filmmaker, Richard Curtis, for his second time on the podcast! His latest initiative, Make My Money Matter is a campaign to shift the £3 trillion invested in UK pensions away from fossil fuels, arms, and meat production over to clean energy, healthcare, and human rights. This initiative is helping vegans not unknowingly invest in meat production, helping doctors not unknowingly invest in tobacco, and the list goes on. Amazing stuff.
And later on in the episode, another Outrage + Optimism first! A live musical performance from Beans on Toast of his song, "On & On". Check out the music video for "On & On": https://bit.ly/2YTfRWL
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone it's Tom here I just wanted to let you know at the top of the show that this week's episode is a live podcast |
| 0:07.1 | We were live this week with Richard Curtis we had a great conversation about how pensions can improve the world for the better. |
| 0:13.8 | I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:15.1 | If you want to see the video version, you can find it on our Facebook page at Global Optimism. |
| 0:20.3 | Really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:21.3 | If you're enjoying the podcast, please do give us a rating. It makes a huge difference. |
| 0:26.1 | If you haven't done that so far, just click on the star rating. Five is a good number. |
| 0:30.7 | Hope you enjoy it. Here we go. |
| 0:33.0 | Attention stubborn optimists. Right now, as part of London Climate Action Week, |
| 0:39.0 | outrage and optimism is live, broadcasting from London and beyond. |
| 0:44.1 | Our hosts, Christina Figueres, Paul Dickinson, |
| 0:47.5 | and Tom Rivicarnack, |
| 0:48.8 | we joined today by Richard Curtis, |
| 0:51.3 | and we'll find out why does everyone look so serious. |
| 0:55.1 | Today we'll be taking some optimistic action as we discover our collective power through |
| 0:59.2 | investing to turn things like this into this. |
| 1:06.8 | Much better. And later on in the live stream |
| 1:10.1 | we'll have a musical performance by artist Beans on Toast, so be sure to stick around. |
| 1:16.0 | Okay, thanks for joining us. Here's the show. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello everybody |
| 1:24.4 | Thank you so much for joining us for this live episode of outrage and optimism. My name's Tom Rivek |
| 1:29.8 | Karnak and I'm... I'm Pestiana Fieg at all. You call and I'm... Oh, you Paul and I'm Christina Fieg. |
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