California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from development; it set energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances. But as climate change fuels megafires across the state and the state’s largest electric utility shuts off power to more than a million residents, can the state’s legacy of environmental leadership save it from climate disaster? In a state already accustomed to swinging wildly between drought and flood, what will become of the California dream? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: David Vogel, Professor Emeritus of Business and Politics, UC Berkeley; Author, California Greenin’ How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader Huey Johnson, Founder, The Trust for Public Land; former California Secretary of Natural Resources. Jason Mark, Editor, Sierra Magazine; Author, Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man Mark Arax, Author, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California Diana Marcum, Reporter, Los Angeles Times Faith Kearns, Scientist, California Institute for Water Resource This program was recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California on July 24, 2018 and July 17, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5	the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton.
0:53.4	There is probably no single area holding so much of charm and beauty and the good things of life
0:59.0	as California. Land of sunshine and happiness.
1:03.0	Americans have been dreaming about California's never-ending sunshine, fertile soil, and rivers running with gold for over 200 years. More recently, though, those dreams have been turning to nightmares.
1:14.6	California is burning. Today there are 16 active fires across the state.
1:18.6	Those not forced to evacuate are dealing with power outages
1:22.6	put in place for nearly 1 million people by the local power company.
1:26.6	Officials warning of extreme shifts in weather that can happen in seconds.
1:31.3	The state now experiences regular weather whiplash, amplified by climate change,
1:36.3	careening between record drought and extreme rainfall.
1:39.3	Yet extremes have always been part of life in California.
1:43.3	People came from all over the world and they didn't have a lot to get started.
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