63. Facing an Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
What role does fear play in awakening humanity to avoiding it's own demise? Can fear sustain long-term action and help us avoid climate change? This week we talk the scary bits of climate truth with author of "The Uninhabitable Earth" David Wallace-Wells. He discusses with us the responsibility of communicating the full potential picture of climate change as a journalist, and how more people on Earth need to hear what could happen if we do not act now.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, friends, this is Tom. Outrage and optimism needs you. Here is Mr. Clay |
| 0:04.8 | Carnil to explain how. Thanks, Tom. Hey everyone, Clay here, producer. Great |
| 0:09.8 | news. We have the opportunity to win a podcast award. Three, actually. Outrage and |
| 0:16.8 | optimism is nominated in three categories for the People's Choice |
| 0:20.8 | Podcast Awards. It's the longest running podcast awards event |
| 0:24.2 | and a very high honor because the winners are chosen by the people. |
| 0:28.7 | That's you. |
| 0:29.7 | And if you're listening on Friday, July 31st, today is the last day to nominate us for the awards. |
| 0:36.0 | So here's what we need you to do. |
| 0:38.1 | Go to podcast awards.com, type in your name, and then choose outrage and optimism in the three categories |
| 0:46.4 | were nominated in. So those three categories are people's choice, news and |
| 0:51.6 | politics, and government and organizations. |
| 0:54.4 | Whoa, Clay, you know, could you repeat that again because our listeners wouldn't necessarily |
| 1:01.2 | have, you know, some writing instrument in front of them so can you |
| 1:05.3 | just repeat what you just said now that we've all sort of gone for our iPads or |
| 1:11.1 | pencils and paper or something? |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, so here's what we need you to do. |
| 1:15.4 | Go to podcast awards.com, there's a link in the show notes, |
| 1:19.6 | type in your name and then choose outrage and optimism in the three categories that were |
| 1:25.4 | nominated in. So those are People's Choice, News and Politics, and Government and |
| 1:30.4 | Organizations. |
| 1:31.4 | Please. I was going to say please as well. |
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