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Marketplace All-in-One

How the port strike might play out on grocery shelves

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Will the ongoing port strike lead to food shortages? It depends on both businesses and shoppers. Plus, retailers bet on big consumer spending this holiday season, OpenAI’s massive new valuation, and a “temperature check” on U.S.-China economic relations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:03.4

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

0:09.6

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

0:14.4

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

0:18.6

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

0:22.6

This could be the warmest year on record.

0:24.6

Climate change is here.

0:25.7

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

0:29.5

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

0:35.9

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

0:44.7

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

0:47.5

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

0:51.0

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

0:55.0

It's a third day of a strike by cargo workers at ports.

1:00.0

I'm David Brancaccio in New York.

1:02.0

The Longshoreman's Union says its members kept it all going through the pandemic,

1:06.4

deserve more, and want more protections against machines taking their jobs.

1:10.5

Marketplace's Henry up has more on the variables determining when

1:14.4

imported goods might run short. Most of the bananas we eat come through ports

1:19.2

impacted by this strike, so they could be one of the first grocery items to run loz as

1:23.8

Joe Balagta said Purdue. There's only so many days, weeks that you can store

1:29.6

bananas but you can build up stocks to prepare for this type of an event which is exactly

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