From Solar Panels To National Policies, What Climate Solutions Actually Help?
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
2023 saw the earth's hottest summer on record. The record-breaking heat continued into September. The year also saw extreme weather including the Canadian wildfires that scorched 37 million acres of land, roughly the size of the state of New York.
News like this can be disheartening. But we've heard from many of you about springing into action to fight climate change, even if it's cautiously optimistic.
We discuss what can be done at home, in your community, and on a larger scale through policy and industry action to fight climate change.
This conversation is part of NPR's Climate Week which puts a spotlight on solutions.
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from an PR sponsor, EXPLOW. |
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| 0:25.7 | This year has been record-breaking for the climate. |
| 0:29.0 | 2023 was the Earth's hottest summer and the record-breaking heat continued into September. |
| 0:34.4 | We've also experienced extreme weather that caused New York City's historic flooding last week |
| 0:39.4 | and heightened natural disasters like Canada's wildfires. |
| 0:42.9 | They scorched 37 million acres of land that's roughly the size of New York State. |
| 0:48.3 | We know the extreme heat and deadly disasters are made worse by climate change |
| 0:52.8 | and news like this can be disheartening, but we heard from many of you about springing into action, |
| 0:58.1 | even if it's with cautious optimism. |
| 1:00.5 | My name is Rory Schneider. I'm an electrician and I work in Rapid City, South Dakota. |
| 1:05.1 | I've been studying climate change way too much for way too long and I find it to be quite |
| 1:09.2 | frustrating as you could imagine because of the lack of action, but my contribution this morning |
| 1:14.2 | is just the fact that I'm going down the road with a trailer full of solar panels right now to install. |
| 1:18.4 | Hi, my name's Karen Porter and I live in a lateral county in North Central, Florida. |
| 1:23.6 | And when you ask the question about fossil fuel use and what we're doing in our own hometown, |
| 1:32.0 | I really thought about it hard and I realized that maybe we can work together as a country. |
| 1:39.8 | Hi, I'm Bonnie Monthly, only the Director of Plastic Ocean Project. |
| 1:43.6 | And thank you for giving us a voice to share how our community has combated climate change. |
| 1:48.4 | Plastic Ocean Project is making a full-length documentary called If the Ocean Could Talk |
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