Hello and welcome to Outrage andarnack. This is Tom Rivik Karnak.

I'm Christina Pegez.

And I'm Paul de Kinsen.

This week we speak about the upcoming US election

and how the future of the planet is on the ballot.

Plus we speak to author Rebecca Solnit and we have music from Barbara Mal.

Thanks for being here. All right guys, I'm going to have to jump into something straight away this time and let me read you just a few lines.

Okay here we go.

Wait what's it gonna be? Okay you ready? Yep. The outcome appears binary.

On the one hand is the status quo of Donald Trump, who as President has proclaimed an

era of American energy dominance, torn up the rules hindering drilling, weakened environmental oversight. On the other, the Green Revolution proposed by Mr. Biden,

who has also committed to decarbonizing the electricity sector by 2035 and reaching net zero

by unleashing $ trillion dollars in spending plan

that would create millions of jobs. Mr Biden has a plan more ambitious than any US state

and he would of course immediately rejoin the Paris Agreement. Has there ever been a more

consequential pivotal moment than the one that the United States is facing in the next 90 days? It's time to switch off from your kind of, you know, movie blockbuster

and recognize that real life is far, far more intense

and potentially consequential than your asteroid movie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Earth at risk from itself.

Christina is looking a little bit serious.

It's half-nishly serious or very tense. I agree with you, Tom. I think the result of the

U.S. election is either a turning point toward saving humanity's chance or condemning us.

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