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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

David Pogue: How to Prepare for Climate Change! (#140)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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For Earth Day 2021, we present a discussion of the comprehensive guide to surviving climate change and global warming, an existential issue of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. Support our Sponsor LinkedIn Jobs! Use this link to post your first job ad for FREE LinkedIn.com/impossible You might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have evacuation plans. Moguls are building bunkers. Retirees in Miami are moving inland. In How to Prepare for Climate Change, bestselling self-help author David Pogue offers sensible, deeply researched advice for how the rest of us should start to ready ourselves for the years ahead. Pogue walks readers through what to grow, what to eat, how to build, how to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to consider relocating when the time comes. He also provides wise tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for riding out every climate catastrophe, from superstorms and wildfires to ticks and epidemics. Get the book: https://amzn.to/32g3ZiI Get free Bonus Material : https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/how-to-prepare-for-climate-change-bonus-files David Pogue was the New York Times weekly tech columnist from 2000 to 2013. He’s a five-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS News Sunday Morning," a New York Times bestselling author, a five-time TED speaker, and host of 20 NOVA science specials on PBS. He’s written or cowritten more than 120 books, including dozens in the "Missing Manual" tech series, which he created in 1999; six books in the "For Dummies" line (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); two novels (one for middle-schoolers); his three bestselling "Pogue’s Basics" books of tips and shortcuts (on Tech, Money, and Life); his new how-to guides, "iPhone Unlocked" and "Mac Unlocked". For a complete list of Pogue’s columns and videos, and to sign up to get them by email, visit https://authory.com/DavidPogue. On Twitter, he’s @pogue; on the web, he’s at www.davidpogue.com. He welcomes civil email exchanges at [email protected]. Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:08.0

So we are joined today's

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by a legend, at least as far as I am concerned, and my family is concerned.

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Super excited to meet today's guest, David Pogue,

0:20.2

so many different outlets.

0:21.6

And I want to ask you first David if a hyper intelligent

0:25.5

alien wakes you up in the middle of the night and says what are you who are you how do

0:29.8

you define yourself you do so many things from writing to TV to activism, to just real intellectualism.

0:36.0

How do you define yourself to yourself?

0:38.0

I mean, I think the one thing everything I do has in common is I'm a science and tech explainer. So it's

0:46.3

varied over the years it was the New York Times for 13 years it was it's been

0:50.8

CBS News Sunday morning since 2002 it's It's

0:55.0

books, talks, it's podcasts, it's talks, it's podcasts with esteemed physicists.

1:00.0

So, but it's all, know communicating science and tech to lay people.

1:06.7

Yeah and you do a phenomenal job I want to talk to you later about issues of communication because you know the

1:14.3

old joke about scientists and engineers as I'm sure you've heard how do you know a

1:18.0

scientist or engineer is outgoing he looks at your shoes when he talks to you

1:25.0

That's my favorite joke. I tell that everywhere I go.

1:26.0

I know.

1:27.0

I got to get a new one.

1:28.0

If you ever come up with a new one,

1:29.0

promise you'll give me a credit,

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