Hello and welcome back to Drilled I'm Amy Westervelt.

This week a new report came out from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, often referred

to as the IPCC report.

It's actually three main reports plus some smaller special focused reports.

And this was the third of the big ones.

It's on mitigation, so it focuses on what do we do about this crisis and why haven't we

done it yet?

Crucially.

This round of IPCC reports included social scientists and their research a lot more than

previous assessments have and you really see it in this report in particular.

There are new chapters on things like demand, which sounds like demand for fossil fuels,

but in fact it questions that whole notion altogether and asks how we can deliver the services

that people need, getting to work, having lights on in their house, being able to cook

these sorts of needs.

Now also reducing emissions, so it really tackles the question of how do we mitigate climate

and and poverty.

There are also new mentions of various things in here, including the role that colonization

played in driving the climate crisis in the first place and the role that it plays in

perpetuating the problem.

This is the first time that we've seen the media mentioned in an IPCC report kind of

wild, given how much of a role the media has played in both informing and not informing

the public.

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