Amanpour: Harsha de Silva, Jack Harries, Bill McKibben and Amber Tamblyn

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Harsha de Silva, the Sri Lankan Economic Reforms Minister, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the devastating attacks on Easter Sunday. Jack Harries, the climate activist and filmmaker talks about the Extinction Rebellion protests in London. Bill McKibben, activist and author discusses his new book "Falter" and the current threats to our species. Our Alicia Menendez talks to Amber Tamblyn, the actress and activist about growing up on screen, her new book "Era of Ignition" and the MeToo movement.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi podcast listeners tonight's show leads off of course with the devastating
0:04.6	Easter Sunday attacks in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka and I speak to a
0:09.4	government minister about the catastrophic failure of the government to act on intelligence
0:15.0	that it received apparently from India and the United States.
0:18.8	Why did that happen and who was behind these attacks.
0:22.8	Then today is Earth Day,
0:24.8	and for the last several months and weeks,
0:27.2	there's been a huge shift in public opinion,
0:29.5	momentum, and street protests,
0:31.3	trying to force governments to take notice and to do
0:34.0	something serious about climate change. I talked to a youth activist Jack Harris
0:38.4	who has a YouTube channel with his twin brother which has 4 million subscribers on this issue 2 million plus
0:45.5	Twitter and Instagram followers and he talks about how social media is also
0:50.0	affecting this grassroots activism against climate change and then I speak to one of the godfathers
0:55.4	the Cassandra's who more than 30 years ago warned about impending climate doom and how we've wasted so much time in trying to get this right and breaking the
1:06.6	back of this catastrophic climate change and he talks about how there still is room
1:12.2	for optimism how we do have the technology, but
1:15.2	how the time is really now and not a minute or a day later.
1:19.8	Enjoy the show. Welcome to the program, everyone.
1:23.0	Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Aftershocks
1:37.5	continue from the devastating Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. A state of
1:42.2	emergency and curfew are in effect now. Today police
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