Fighting climate despair

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Climate change has driven some environmental activists to extremes. We talk about overcoming despair with Terry Kaelber, whose husband David Buckel took his life to protest inaction, and Tim DeChristopher, who was imprisoned for his activism. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey with help from Christian Ayala, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's today explained I'm Noelle King.
0:04.0	I'm starting today's show with not a warning exactly, but a note that we will be talking
0:09.8	about despair and we'll be talking about a suicide.
0:14.2	In the spring of 2018, a man named David Buckle took his life at sunrise in Brooklyn's
0:20.4	prospect park.
0:22.2	David had been a successful lawyer, but he left the law to become an environmental advocate.
0:28.1	Change made David despondent, the sheer bigness of it.
0:32.6	And he decided that the way to force the world to pay attention was to take his life in
0:38.1	a public and very unusual way.
0:41.3	Self-immolation.
0:42.3	David set himself on fire.
0:45.0	Here's what we're going to do coming up.
0:46.6	We're going to talk to David's husband about his despair.
0:49.7	And we're going to talk to a climate activist who has also struggled with despair about
0:54.3	how not to lose hope.
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