Ending Climate Change with Saul Griffith

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We often frame the fight against climate change as one of endless sacrifice. But the truth is, the real solutions to climate change would both save money and make our lives better. Scientist, inventor, and energy expert Saul Griffith joins Adam to walk us through why electric power is more efficient, powerful, and affordable long-term; how the “scarcity mentality” is a flawed way to view fighting climate change; and how a “wartime mobilization” to electrify our society would both fight the COVID economic slump as well as combat climate change. Saul Griffith's book Rewiring America is available wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:07.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	Yeah, that got to go.
0:19.0	Yeah, that's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	I'm Adam Connover.
0:31.0	And if you've been checking the average global temperature lately,
0:34.0	you might have noticed it's getting a little bit hot on planet Earth.
0:37.0	Apocalypse hot.
0:39.0	I won't get into the details, but the possibilities for the future.
0:42.0	Barring drastic change,
0:43.0	Sydney range,
0:44.0	somewhere between ongoing catastrophe
0:46.0	and civilizational annihilation,
0:48.0	somewhere in there.
0:49.0	The situation, in other words, is bleak.
0:52.0	So what is it going to take to fix it?
0:54.0	That's what we've been asking.
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