Can Manchester mend the planet?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
World leaders are meeting in Poland for the latest round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks. The meeting is the most critical on climate change since the 2015 Paris agreement. Since the US pulled out of that deal the scale of the problem can seem overwhelming – as we hear in this episode the Swedes call it “climate angst” and have some radical solutions to address it. But there are plenty of more practical solutions to tackling climate change much closer to home. We travel to Manchester, which plans to go carbon neutral in the next twenty years.
Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Producer: Duncan Barber Editor: John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price. |
| 0:07.8 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.6 | We ask one question every day about one big story. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, as world leaders hold the latest international summit to tackle climate change, |
| 0:21.0 | we ask, can Manchester mend the planet? Well this is a bit different. It's beyond today on a bicycle. I cycle a lot and we thought we kick off this episode with me cycling into work. |
| 0:47.0 | I do it for fitness to quite a large extent. I also do it because I feel a little bit better about the environment |
| 0:58.9 | when I do it, sort of playing my part I guess. |
| 1:03.0 | There's lots of little things I do. |
| 1:06.0 | Like that, I've got a reusable cut. |
| 1:08.0 | I certainly don't take plastic bags. |
| 1:11.0 | I try not to drive when I can help it. But then there does come a point. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm just going to stop next to this bus because I can't squeeze past it. There does come a point when you look at the buses and you think |
| 1:23.2 | to yourself all this traffic around all this other activity what I'm doing is |
| 1:28.1 | just it's just a drop in the ocean isn't it I mean what is the point in me |
| 1:31.8 | pedaling away I mean what is the point in me peddling away? It's not going to stop climate change. |
| 1:38.0 | Climat-Ongest, that's climate angst. |
| 1:43.0 | The worry that everything is going really badly |
| 1:48.0 | and you may stay awake at night worrying about polar bears on ever diminishing ice floats. |
| 1:54.6 | You may worry that your children don't have a future to look forward to. |
| 2:00.8 | You may struggle to shield yourself from let's faces the omnipresent |
| 2:05.4 | bombardment of dystopian news in the media these days about the climate and that's |
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