Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rana Mitter looks at the ideologies surrounding climate disaster with guests including Rupert Read of Extinction Rebellion, investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed, professor of psychosocial theory Lisa Baraitser, and lawyer Tessa Khan. How do we make sense of the idea of ecological collapse, and what are the assumptions hidden in the way we discuss climate disaster? Producer: Luke Mulhall
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| 0:32.4 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, I'm Ron Amitter. Welcome to BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas discussion program, |
| 0:42.4 | which brings together leading artists, writers and thinkers in conversation and debate. |
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| 0:57.4 | Nature is angry. |
| 1:00.3 | And we fool ourselves if we think we can fool nature. |
| 1:05.5 | The years 2015 to 2019, the five hottest year on the books ever. |
| 1:11.6 | Our warming earth is issuing a chilling cry. |
| 1:16.6 | Stop. |
| 1:18.6 | If we don't urgently change our ways of life, you jeopardize life itself. |
| 1:24.6 | Not the words there of a climate activist in the streets or even of Greta Thunberg, |
| 1:29.4 | who to be fair would probably be a bit more fruity in her use of language. That was the august figure |
| 1:34.4 | of Antonio Gutierrez, the Secretary General of the United Nations. He was speaking earlier this week |
| 1:40.2 | at the end of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Madrid. |
| 1:50.9 | 2019 may be the year when the debate on climate change shifted to one on the climate crisis. |
| 1:57.5 | The vast majority of countries and multilateral organisations in the world, China, the UK, the EU, |
| 2:02.0 | the Pacific Islands, have seen the real effects of rapid global heating, |
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