Ayana Elizabeth Johnson asks ‘What If We Get It Right’ on Climate Change?

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Marine biologist and climate activist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, like the rest of us, has heard plenty of terrifying warnings about the dangers of failing to act on climate change. What she’s heard less is a question she says is not asked enough about our climate crisis: What if we get it right? That question is the title of her new book of interviews with innovators in the climate movement about what the world could be “if we charge ahead with the array of climate solutions we have at our fingertips.” We talk with Johnson about that future world and how we can get there. Guests: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist, co-founder of think tank Urban Ocean Lab, author, What if we Get it Right? Visions of Climate Futures - co creator of the Blue New Deal, a road map for including the ocean in climate policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	it's also a more compelling task
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1:20.6	This morning, we talked with marine biologist
1:23.6	and climate activist Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson
1:25.6	about her new book.
1:29.3	Its title asks an important question.
1:31.0	What if we get it right?
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