Bonus: The Climate Question
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode from The Climate Question podcast - Is the climate on the ballot at the US election?
The southern US state of Georgia has received billions of dollars in investment in clean technology, creating tens of thousands of jobs at solar power factories and electric vehicle factories. It is also on the front-line of extreme weather - facing the threat of hurricanes, heatwaves and drought. So will voters in this swing state be considering climate change when they cast their ballots for the US presidential election in November? And how are politicians in Georgia talking about the issue. Jordan Dunbar takes a road trip across the state to find out.
Weekly, The Climate Question looks at why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that. For more episodes just search for 'The Climate Question' wherever you got his podcast.
Got a question you’d like answered? Email: TheClimateQuestion@bbc.com or WhatsApp: +44 8000 321 721
Presenter: Jordan Dunbar Producer: Beth Timmins Sound Mix: Tom Brignell Editor: Simon Watts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Greer Jackson and welcome to this bonus episode of the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm the presenter of The Climate Question Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Every week we scour the world to see how climate change is affecting our planet |
| 0:16.4 | and what we can do about it. You can subscribe to the climate question wherever you get your |
| 0:22.4 | podcasts and to give you a flavor of what we do |
| 0:25.8 | you're about to hear the BBC's Justin Rolat reporting for us from Somalia. |
| 0:37.0 | We are entering the fifth consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa. It's decimated by stock crops and have forced the import to flee their homes in sexual help. |
| 0:43.0 | Climate change is taking a terrible toll across the world, |
| 0:47.0 | bringing droughts and floods. |
| 0:49.0 | It's a civil war, we've seen in living memory. |
| 0:52.0 | On the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. |
| 0:55.2 | No city can take that amount of rain. |
| 0:57.2 | Time is of essence. We need to act now. |
| 0:59.2 | But it's doing something else as well, acting as a kind of chaos multiplier, making |
| 1:08.2 | existing conflicts even more acute. |
| 1:11.1 | It's a disaster. |
| 1:13.0 | Like I don't know how to express, you know, how to explain. |
| 1:16.0 | It seemed like it's chaos. |
| 1:21.0 | I've been to Somalia one of the most dangerous countries in the world to see how |
| 1:26.4 | climate change is helping drive the violence here. When drought hits, finding food for your animals can become a matter of life and death. |
| 1:37.0 | The herders who lead their animals into the farm stay back when they see my gun. |
| 1:42.9 | They get scared of you. |
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