Hello and welcome back to Drilled.

I'm Amy Westervelt.

Obviously there is a lot to be outraged by and fearful of happening in the U.S. right now.

And as is the case, whenever anything is happening outside of extreme weather events,

there's been of a chorus right now chanting, who cares about climate change?

Who cares about a far-off problem when there are so many more urgent threats?

It should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway,

anyone who cares about mitigating climate risk

should absolutely be showing up to fight for democracy.

The same administration that is shooting citizens in the street

for exercising their First Amendment right

is, after all, trying to get rid of the

Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

and all of the protections that go along with them. I would say that those of us who think the

world should act according to the scientific evidence on not only climate change,

but also air and water pollution, should be able to walk and chew gum at least as well as the

goon's intent on destroying the so-called administrative state in the U.S.

Giving a shit about the long-term viability of the human species is very much aligned with protecting

your fellow humans on the streets today.

There are also a whole bunch of ways that these issues directly intersect, one of which

is the topic of today's show.

From 2022 to 2024, we reported, reported wrote and produced an investigation into the increasing

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