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Heat, A History / On Barak

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Returning to This is Hell!, On Barak, author of, "Heat, a History Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet." On is a social and cultural historian of science and technology and Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. After the interview, we hear a new "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi. Check out Barak's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/heat-a-history/paper Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

You don't look down when we march downtown for some truth

0:08.7

because you can't complain if you don't find a way to stand up to stand up

0:16.4

stand up was a night.

0:21.4

Don't walk, don't walk Don't walk

0:24.0

be don't walk

0:25.0

silent into the night

0:28.0

take my head and when

0:31.0

see us through The way says, say it's through.

0:33.0

Say it's about the world. This is hell. That was a very nice and noisy segue. What was the music that you were playing before the show started

0:54.9

Chris because live streaming listeners always want to know.

0:59.4

Ray's era goes the indigenous singer, it's premature anti oil pipeline song fight for you

1:06.3

fight for the planet so it's a nice I saw it live actually I think I think it was

1:10.3

chop shop I can't remember I get these Rooker Park places mixed up, but yeah, she gave a really wonderful performance.

1:15.6

I've seen her sing before on, I believe it was that First Nations FNX TV, and she was really fantastic. The planet's on fire. So yes, this is hell. Okay, but Maybe not the entire planet is currently in flames at this very moment.

1:40.0

Maybe we're not all experiencing global warming in the same way, despite all of us experiencing the same global average increase in temperature.

1:49.0

Maybe thinking about the climate crisis on a global level affecting all of us. Maybe that

1:55.3

universalism, that worldwide impact, and all of us contributing to the Earth's demise

2:01.2

maybe that obscures not only the causes of this warming

2:05.8

trend, but also whatever politics can be employed to mitigate the worst of this looming disaster that in many ways is already here. Maybe warming is just

2:18.0

not the right word. After all isn't warming key to the boiling frog syndrome and its failure to act against a problematic situation

2:26.5

which will increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions?

2:30.9

i.e. the frog doesn't notice the water is being warmed until it's too late and it reaches

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