Climate change may have already done enough damage to the earth that whatever we do now to stop it, may be too little, according to author Guy McPherson- Thom and his callers respond, and then- activist Paul Gunter on the dangers of nuclear power plants, plus- 'Cities: The First 6000 years' by Monica L. Smith.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Guy Mcpherson, author most recently of 'Only Love Remains', joins Thom in studio to consider if it may be too late to human-caused climate change. Do you think he is right? Is there time to fix the damaging climate change effects or has the Arctic melted too much for us to stop it? ~~~ Thom's insightful listeners add their ideas to the climate change debate. ~~~ Thom reads from 'Cities: The First 6000 Years' by Monica L. Smith. ~~~ Nuclear power plants are not prepared for the effects of climate change. Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter discussed the dangers of flooding, earthquakes and climate change on America's nuclear power infrastructure. ~~~ Thom reads from 'Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster' by Adam Higginbotham. ~~~ Thom checks in with Luke Vargas, Chief Foreign Correspondent for Talk Media News.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.0 | There's a new report out from the UN. |
| 0:28.0 | This is not about climate change, this is about the loss of species, about massive extinction. |
| 0:35.9 | And what they're saying is that because there are 7 billion of us on the planet Earth and |
| 0:40.8 | because 94% of all mammals on the planet right now are |
| 0:44.8 | livestock for us to eat. There are 8 million plant-animal species on the planet. |
| 0:49.7 | We are pushing a million of them to the brink of extinction with potentially devastating impacts |
| 0:55.4 | and implications for the future of civilization. |
| 1:00.4 | So what do we do with this? At the same time we're spending over 600 billion dollars a year on military more than the next six countries |
| 1:09.5 | combined. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, how do we deal with this climate change crisis? Your thoughts right after this. Guy McPherson is with us. Guy is the professor emeritus of Conservation Biology at the University of Arizona. |
| 1:27.0 | His website Guy McPherson.com, he's also the author of Only Love Remains, Dancing at the Edge of Ext of extinction a new book published by |
| 1:34.4 | wood thrush publications guy welcome to the program thank you tom it's |
| 1:38.2 | pleasure to chat with you today or welcome to the studio it's it's really |
| 1:41.5 | having you actually physically here. So you know we've kind of got this |
| 1:45.6 | spectrum of opinion on, you know among people who are actually acknowledging climate change |
| 1:51.1 | on what it means and what the consequences will be in. |
| 1:53.4 | Louise and I are going over to see our one-year-old grandson tonight and I tend to put things |
| 1:58.8 | in terms of what's going to happen in his lifetime. |
| 2:01.8 | The most conservative among us are saying that by the time he hits 70 or 80 we're |
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