Even the Wealthiest Nations are Unprepared for a Hotter Planet

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In Germany, searches for the missing continue in the wake of recent catastrophic flooding that destroyed villages and claimed almost 200 lives so far. That disaster, together with wildfires that rage in Canada and the western U.S. and record-breaking temperatures in Russia, led New York Times climate correspondent Somini Sengupta to conclude that “the world as a whole is neither prepared to slow down climate change, nor live with it.” We’ll talk to Sengupta about why even wealthy countries are ill-equipped to deal with the worst effects of climate change and what it will take to force international action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.1	The catastrophic flooding in Germany and neighboring countries, together with record-breaking
0:53.5	temperatures in Russia and wildfires raging in Canada and the U, together with record-breaking temperatures in Russia
0:54.6	and wildfires raging in Canada and the U.S., led New York Times climate correspondent
0:59.6	Somini Sengupta to write, The World as a Whole is neither prepared to slow down climate
1:05.1	change nor live with it, what the latest climate emergencies reveal. Then, this month marks 30 years since the release of Boys in the Hood.
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1:36.8	Searches for the missing continue in Germany
1:38.9	in the wake of last week's floods
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