Coming of Age at the End of History, with Lea Ypi
Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared
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🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest |
| 0:06.2 | But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of |
| 0:13.6 | Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya |
| 0:16.4 | Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis |
| 0:22.0 | It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life |
| 0:28.5 | But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered |
| 0:34.7 | Irrigation under training people such as Pauline to grow vegetables with support |
| 0:39.1 | She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school with your help |
| 0:46.1 | practical action can do even more |
| 0:48.1 | regenerating depleted land into productive farms |
| 0:50.5 | repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups |
| 0:55.4 | Please take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality |
| 0:59.5 | Your donation can help build a world where the lives and livelihoods of the world's poorest people are no longer at the mercy of climate change or |
| 1:07.2 | Environmental degradation while there's still time visit practical action dot org to get involved |
| 1:12.8 | Welcome to intelligence squared today |
| 1:14.9 | We hear from the author of a new memoir that tells not only her own story but the story of her home country Albania to |
| 1:20.9 | During a period of cultural and political upheaval. Here's the journalist and author Luke Harding foreign correspondent for the Guardian with more |
| 1:28.1 | Hello everybody. Welcome to this intelligence squared plus event with me Luke Harding |
| 1:32.5 | I'm absolutely delighted to introduce our |
| 1:34.7 | Guest tonight a layer of Oopie professor and political theory in the government department of London School of our economics |
| 1:40.3 | And of course author of the acclaimed new book free which we'll be talking about this evening play here is your book |
| 1:46.1 | It's it's a wonderful wonderful wonderful thing. It was a great |
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