Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

What if you took a year and did a lot of deep reporting on what it looks like to have the government in this economy.

You'd have to do a wrap-up show, right?

From American Public Media.

This is market place.

In Los Angeles, I'm Car Rizdol. It is Wednesday, today the 2nd of October. Good as always have you long, everybody.

We have been working on a series called Breaking Ground for the past year about how the

federal government is changing this

economy and its role in it in complicated, invisible, and sometimes contradictory

ways. We've done stories about infrastructure spending in Las Vegas.

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