Climate Fix: How Climate Change Is Disrupting Our Concept of Home

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The latest season of KQED’s podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America examines how Californians are grappling with the concept of home as climate change disrupts where and how people live. Extreme weather causing wildfires and flooding has already forced thousands of people from their homes. Obtaining insurance for a home has become a herculean feat for some owners. Even seemingly simple decisions about what appliances to buy for your home can drastically alter your carbon footprint, but options are not always easy or affordable. For our next episode of Climate Fix, Forum’s regular collaboration with KQED’s Science team, we’ll explore the intersection of climate and housing along with our colleagues from KQED’s housing team. Guests: Ezra David Romero, climate reporter, KQED Erin Baldassari, housing affordability reporter, KQED Danielle Venton, science reporter, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for KQWED podcasts comes from Rancho LaPuerta, a wellness resort 45 minutes from San Diego.
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0:49.6	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:55.8	Climate change means very directly that the places we've called home will not remain as they have been.
1:01.5	Wildfire risk is changing, flood risks are rising. In response, insurance companies are changing who and where they're willing to underwrite policies. And more fundamentally, the American way of
1:07.3	housing is deeply, obviously, unsustainable. So, this, the KQED podcast sold out takes on the changes that global warming is
1:16.6	forcing on our housing system.
1:18.9	What do we have to do?
1:20.1	What can't we control?
1:21.8	Can we make the changes our region needs before it's too late?
1:25.8	That's all coming up next after this news.
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