Amanpour: Paul Polman, Bill McKibben and Robert Bullard

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As Super Tuesday is in full swing, we dig down into a key issue for the Democrats: climate. Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever, tells Amanpour why investing in climate solutions could unlock economic growth. Environmentalist Bill McKibben was one of the first to sound the alarm on the climate crisis over twenty years ago - he lays out how divestment efforts are affecting the fossil fuel industry. Then Robert Bullard, the author and celebrated environmental scholar, sits down with our Walter Isaacson to highlight how climate change is intrinsically linked to race and segregation. He explains how minority communities in Houston suffer most from pollution.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 Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	The earth is on fire!
0:10.0	The art is earned fire! The art is earned fire!
0:14.0	Voting for climate action.
0:17.0	Are corporations finally doing their bit to tackle the crisis?
0:21.0	I speak to you, Reliver's former CEO Paul Pullman in this climate
0:25.8	special. Then, why governments must also step up and be part of the solution, the man who
0:31.8	helped sound the alarm Bill McKibbon joins us.
0:34.6	The climate change, sea level rise will exacerbate the inequities that already exists.
0:41.2	The father of environmental justice, Robert Bullard, on the
0:45.2	burden of climate change on minority communities. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Millions of
1:06.4	voters have been casting their ballots this super Tuesday across the United
1:10.2	States as the Democrats ramp up their contests to take on President Trump in November.
1:15.0	And for the first time one of the top issues is the climate crisis.
1:19.0	Two-thirds of Americans say the federal government is not doing enough to tackle it.
1:24.7	In our program tonight we want to look not just at the politics, but also at the people offering
1:29.9	solutions, the people reimagining the system.
1:33.8	An increasing number of corporations are stepping up to the challenge,
1:37.5	putting them a step ahead of their governments.
1:40.1	This year, we've seen climate pledges from some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world
1:46.4	Microsoft Amazon, Nestle and Shell to name a few
1:49.7	They are all promising to reduce their carbon emissions.
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