Hot prospects: a sobering IPCC report
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 9 August 2021
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Summary
The UN climate body’s latest doorstopper report is unequivocal: climate change is human-caused, and already here—and 1.5°C of warming is looking ever harder to avoid. In Bolivia, debate still rages as to whether a 2019 election was rigged, or a coup; the people want pandemic relief, not paralysed politics. And investigating the received wisdom of the “difficult second novel”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist, on your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:14.5 | In late 2019, Bolivia held a presidential vote in which quite a few things didn't seem |
| 0:23.4 | right. |
| 0:24.4 | Was the election stolen? |
| 0:26.0 | Was it a coup? |
| 0:27.7 | The two years on, these questions are still being asked and still having a crippling effect |
| 0:32.9 | on the country's politics. |
| 0:36.2 | And the greater the success for a first-time novelist, the greater the dread of the expectations |
| 0:41.3 | of a follow-up. |
| 0:42.8 | Our data team looks into the well-known but not much studied effect of the difficult second |
| 0:47.8 | novel. |
| 0:56.0 | You've been telling us for over three decades of the dangers of allowing the candidates |
| 1:05.6 | warm. |
| 1:06.9 | The world listened but didn't hear. |
| 1:09.9 | The world listened but it did not act strongly enough. |
| 1:13.6 | And as a result, climate change is a problem that is here now. |
| 1:19.6 | Nobody's safe and it's getting worse faster. |
| 1:23.7 | The intergovernmental panel on climate change has a long history of choosing its words carefully. |
| 1:29.6 | But in the latest landmark report from the UN's Global Climate Authority released this morning, |
| 1:35.0 | the tone is shifting. |
| 1:37.0 | For years, there was a whisper of uncertainty of unwillingness to make definitive and |
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