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Amanpour: Henk Ovink, Katharine Hayhoe, Joey Zwillinger and S. James Gates

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Henk Ovink, Dutch special envoy for International Water Affairs, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the extreme flooding in Venice; the worst it has ever experienced. Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist, also weighs in on the climate crisis causing natural disasters around the world like the flooding in Venice, fires in California and smog in India. Joey Zwillinger, co-CEO of shoe company Allbirds, talks about developing his innovative and sustainable shoe brand. Our Walter Isaacson, sits down with Sylvester James Gates, professor and theoretical physicist, to reflect on co-writing, "Proving Einstein Right". He explores how scientists proved Einstein's ground-breaking theory of relativity all those years ago.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

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunfor. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Venice has flooded three times in one week a first as the global climate crisis

0:15.1

superchargers extreme weather intensity I speak to Henk-Oving the world's flood

0:20.5

prevention ambassador and to climate scientist Catherine Hayhoe then the product is actually carbon negative

0:27.8

meaning it sucks more carbon out of the atmosphere than it takes to create

0:31.1

How to change the economy, not the climate, a footwear

0:35.3

success story for our times. Allbirds co-founder Joey Swillinger on his billion

0:40.8

dollar all-sustain sustainable sneaker company.

0:44.0

Plus, it's intellectual diversity that we have to worry about because that's the fire that drives our ability to innovate.

0:50.0

An award winning physicist on why diversity is vital to science.

0:55.0

Walter Isachson talks to Professor James Gates, author of proving Einstein Right. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane, I'm

1:15.2

Christiane. I'm Anpur in London.

1:17.1

Venice, one of the world's most beloved tourist spots. It is a network of islands,

1:22.3

its watery thoroughfares, the stuff of legend.

1:25.0

But never in 50 years has it seen a catastrophe like this.

1:29.0

Historic stormwaters have deluged the centuries-old city three times in a single week.

1:35.9

Six foot tides are engulfing 85% of Venice's streets and buildings, including the iconic 9th century St. Mark's Basilica.

1:45.5

All this salt water threatens to structurally undermine a treasure trove of architectural

1:50.6

and cultural landmarks.

1:52.6

Meanwhile, floods and heavy winds are hitting much of the Italian peninsula,

1:57.1

and severe floods are hitting England and France as well.

2:01.1

All across the world, we see more and more evidence of how the climate crisis

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