How History Inspires Environmental Activism

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The world faces a unique environmental challenge. The scale of response to this looming catastrophe can be overwhelming. But economist and activist Andrew Simms believes that history provides us with a guide. It can inspire us to see that we have overcome greater challenges than those we face now. It can encourage us to be bold and believe that the solution lies in our hands. Andrew co-founded the New Weather Institute and Green New Deal group and is a lover of history. In this podcast Andrew shares his thoughts with Dan on episodes in the past that we should be looking to, from the New Deal to the allied victory in the Second World War. He believes we "are capable of extraordinary things."

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0:00.0	Hello History Hit listeners, as you are listening to this right now at this exact second I am
0:05.8	currently on an epic cross-country road trip of England. 600 miles and 1 million years of history
0:14.4	from the first humans through to Stonehenge, Dovercastle, Hastings up to Ironbridge in the
0:19.3	Black Country and to the northeast where I'm visiting a Cold War bunker in York.
0:25.0	I want to hear from you. I want to do more stops. Tell me when I should stop. Any local tips or
0:29.8	hints that you want to share or you want to see me report on on my social media channels and Twitter
0:34.1	and Instagram etc. just send me a message ds.hh at historyhit.com. That's delta Sierra.
0:41.4	. hotel hotel at historyhit.com or tweet me at the History Guy. You can keep up with the road trip
0:47.4	this week on Instagram and Twitter at the History Guy on both and then you can hear the whole thing as a
0:52.1	podcast series next week. Thanks and enjoy this episode.
1:02.7	Hello everyone, welcome to Ice Nose History Hit. We've got fires in Australia. We've got
1:06.6	coal fired power stations in too many places, belching our emissions that are in contributing to
1:11.0	global warming, climate change, climate emergency. We've got too much plastic in our oceans.
1:16.5	And here at History Hit we're in Duabit alongside lots of other media organisations to make sure
1:21.7	we're doing our bit talking about the environmental challenges that we face. And it gives me huge
1:26.3	pleasure to talk to Andrew Simmons, his writer, his an activist, his friend. We've worked together on
1:31.4	a campaign for more woodland cover here in the UK. And he believes history can inspire positive change
1:37.0	around the environment. He's written, he's an economist as well. He understands economics.
1:41.5	Very exciting. So he's been lots of books talking about how we can change the way that we live,
1:46.4	the way that we interact, the way that we consume energy without destabilising our entire
1:52.4	economic, political and social level. It's great guys, optimistic, positive, as he'll hear,
1:55.7	is a wonderful communicator. So in Draylis and Andrew Simmons, he talks about some of the big moments
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