Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

How you doing, consumer?

From Marketplace, I'm Nancy Marshall Genser in for David Brancaccio.

We get retail sales data tomorrow morning.

This will give us another peek into how consumers are doing right now.

As we inch closer to the holiday shopping season, a new forecast out from Deloyd predicts holiday spending is likely

to grow this year, but not quite as much as it did in the past few years.

Marketplace's Samantha Fields has more.

Coming out of the pandemic, consumers went big for the holidays.

Spending jumped more than 15% in 2021 and 7.6% in 2022.

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