Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

We'll visit two ports where a strike is stranding everything from cars to food.

I'm David Brancaccio as we go into a second day of a strike that has brought

ports from Maine to Texas to a standstill. The Biden administration is urging the foreign-owned

shipping companies to raise their offer and try to

reach a deal with striking members of the International Longshoremen's Union.

Stryker seek better pay and limits to the use of automation to load and unload cargo, we start with Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes at the port of Baltimore.

About a hundred striking longshoremen were marching by one of the terminals in the port of Baltimore.

Trucks and car haulers cheerfully

toothed their horns up them. Baltimore is one of the biggest auto ports in the

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