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Can music make people care about climate change?

Headlines From The Times

L.A. Times Studios

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, The Times, California

4.1544 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Jones, California’s beloved earthquake expert, sits down with environment reporter Rosanna Xia to discuss her new project: using music to inspire people to take action against climate change.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? It's Gustav Ariano. And today we're doing something special. This episode is our first ever column one done as an audio story. For those of you who don't know, column one is a legendary series at the Los Angeles Times that goes back decades where our writers get creative with their storytelling and do deep dives into unexpected topics. And so I'm going to pass the mic over to environmental reporter Rosanna Shaw.

0:24.1

You best know her as one of our Masters of Disasters, Zazters.

0:31.6

But Rosanna is an amazing reporter and writer, just incredible.

0:36.2

Today, she's going to be speaking with a very, very, very special guest, renounce seismologist Lucy Jones.

0:42.9

Southern Californians know her as the voice of all reason whenever an earthquake hits.

0:47.3

But did you know she's also a classical music extraordinaire?

0:50.6

Roseanne and Lucy are about to take you on a journey.

0:53.4

That's a little bit musical, a little bit psychology,

0:56.5

and a whole lot of scary.

0:59.0

Just kidding.

1:00.0

At the heart of today's episode

1:01.2

is an unusually fascinating question

1:03.3

that Lucy has been trying to answer for years.

1:06.6

Can music change the way we think about climate change?

1:10.3

Rosanna, take it away.

1:15.3

I'm Rosanna Shaw. You're listening to The Times.

1:18.2

Essential news from the L.A. Times.

1:19.9

It's Friday, March famous seismologist.

1:44.8

And now we're having an actor shot.

1:47.1

We're now a seismologist, Dr. Lucy Jones.

1:48.8

Dr. Lucy Jones, the earthquake lady.

1:51.1

Quake expert, Dr. Lucy Jones is out with a new...

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