75. Optimism and Earthshots with Prince William
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week on Outrage + Optimism, Prince William is here!
With just under 10 years to cut global emissions by 50%, the future of our planet depends on a raising of ambition we have not seen since JFK’s Moonshot. A conservationist at heart and in practice, Prince William is on the hunt to find and finance the solutions that will get us there.
Enter The Earthshot Prize - Five, one million-pound prizes awarded each year for the next 10 years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.
The categories for the prizes are as follows: Protect and Restore Nature, Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans, Build A Waste-Free World, and Fix Our Climate – simple yet ambitious goals, underpinned by scientifically agreed targets, which if achieved by 2030 will improve life for us all, for generations to come.
Our hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson sit down with The Duke of Cambridge to find out why he is doing this now, and how optimistic he is that we can solve the climate crisis.
Plus, stick around for an incredible musical performance from AURORA and Aaron Taylor!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage Optimism. I'm Tom Rificarnak. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Cristiana in the aftermath of a tropical storm. |
| 0:19.2 | And I'm Paul Dickinson in Dryton. We are the co-hosts of Outrage Optimism and each |
| 0:23.4 | week we get together and talk about solutions to the climate crisis. This is an emergency, |
| 0:28.6 | we can do what is necessary and solve this issue in the next 10 years. This week we speak |
| 0:33.8 | to Prince William about the remarkable earth shop prize that he has launched and how over |
| 0:38.8 | the next 10 years a series of commitments to support the most innovative solutions will |
| 0:44.4 | transform the trajectory that we're on. We also have two musical guests this week, Aurora |
| 0:49.4 | and Aaron Taylor. Stick around to hear both of their incredible performances. Thanks for |
| 0:54.7 | being here. |
| 1:05.9 | This is a big week for us this week. Can you imagine that we have a future king of England |
| 1:11.5 | on this podcast? Who would have thought would be here even a few months ago? Now, but |
| 1:15.4 | Cristiana, there's not a lot of silence coming from you. Hold on, hold on Tom. So I'm the |
| 1:20.1 | non-bred here. So I just want to make sure we're totally correct. Is it the future king |
| 1:25.1 | of England or is it the future king of Great Britain? |
| 1:28.2 | Well, let's ask famous royalist Paul Dickinson. Okay, so I'm not like a history buff, but |
| 1:32.9 | I think people have been running around this chunk of rock with like axes and clubs whacking |
| 1:37.5 | each other on the head for thousands of years trying to answer that question. So it's kind |
| 1:41.1 | of a bit awkward. Anyway, that's a good point. Not that it's a sensitive topic or it has |
| 1:48.4 | a lot of history behind it. Anyway, but Cristiana, what is that noise? Yes. Well, this is the |
| 1:54.2 | noise of rain. And I have to tell you, as you know, I live on the Pacific coast of |
| 2:01.6 | Costa Rica. We actually, I think that's been mentioned on this podcast before. |
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