Green Thinking: Seascapes and Blue Gold
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How real are flooding dangers in Britain and Ireland? Two researchers who have been working with local communities in Wales, Norfolk and Ireland tell Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough about the impact of changing landscapes, how sand dunes beat concrete, and how audio postcodes can help the people of Norfolk reflect on their with local wildlife along the longest protected coast in Europe.
Dr Emma McKinley is a research fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Cardiff University, and her research focuses on understanding the connections and emotions between society and the sea. Emma is also Manager of the Severn Estuary Partnership which brings people together to protect and benefit the Severn Estuary. You can read more about the partnership and get involved here: https://severnestuarypartnership.org.uk
Professor George Revill is part of the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies at the Open University. His project ‘Listening to Climate Change’ is focusing on North Norfolk, using sound and music to encourage local people to think about their relationship with the sea landscape. You can read more about the project and watch some of the project videos here: https://heritage-research.org/case-studies/sounding-coastal-changelistening-climate-change-experiments-sonic-democracy/
Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough is a New Generation Thinker based at the University of Durham.
You can find a new podcast series Green Thinking: 26 episodes 26 minutes long in the run up to COP26 made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI, exploring the latest research and ideas around understanding and tackling the climate and nature emergency. New Generation Thinkers Des Fitzgerald and Eleanor Barraclough will be in conversation with researchers on a wide-range of subjects from cryptocurrencies and finance to eco poetry and fast fashion.
The podcasts are all available from the Arts & Ideas podcast feed - and collected on the Free Thinking website under Green Thinking where you can also find programmes on mushrooms, forests, rivers, eco-criticism and soil. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2 For more information about the research the AHRC’s supports around climate change and the natural world you can visit: https://www.ukri.org/our-work/responding-to-climate-change/ or follow @ahrcpress on twitter. To join the discussion about the research covered in this podcast and the series please use the hashtag #GreenThinkingPodcast.
Producer: Sofie Vilcins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
| 0:23.3 | It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, I'm Eleanor Rosamond Barakuff, and welcome to this episode of Green Thinking, where we're looking at new research that sheds light on stories like this one. |
| 0:46.7 | People living near the seaside in England haven't faced up to the reality of climate change. That's got into a new report. |
| 0:53.9 | The Committee on Climate Change is warning that sea levels may rise by up to one metre over the next 80 years within the lifetime of today's children. |
| 1:01.4 | In the eye of the storm, Dawlish in Devon in 2014, battered by the waves. |
| 1:07.2 | Train tracks destroyed. Today's report says more of this will happen as sea levels are pushed higher by man-made climate change. |
| 1:15.7 | These homes at Hemsby in Norfolk slipped into the sea as waves et away the cliff below. |
| 1:21.7 | The report says maybe 100,000 properties are at risk like this. |
| 1:26.8 | Power plants, ports, gas terminals and other infrastructure |
| 1:30.3 | are also at risk, the report says. It says the government needs to focus on protecting these assets |
| 1:36.7 | as well as saving people's homes and to take seriously the inevitability of sea level rise. |
| 1:43.3 | The government says more sea defences are being built. |
| 1:46.9 | A spokesman said people would be protected from climate change. |
| 1:51.1 | Roger Harrowman, BBC News. |
| 1:53.2 | That was a BBC news report from 2018 on the issue of Britain's coastal communities being affected by climate change. |
| 2:02.6 | And that's our topic for today. I'm joined by Dr Emma McKinley, Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental |
| 2:09.0 | Sciences at Cardiff University and founder and chair of the Marine Social Sciences Network. |
| 2:15.4 | Also with me is Professor George Revel, who's Professor of Cultural Historical |
| 2:20.5 | Geography at the Open University. So, hello both. Hi, Eleanor. Hello there. Emma, I wonder, |
| 2:27.9 | can you start by fleshing out that report for us? If you heard our last episode, we mentioned sea |
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