How to replace everything in the industrialized world

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Climate writer and Vox contributor David Roberts talks with Jessika Trancik, Associate Professor at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at M.I.T. They discuss many aspects of the vast undertaking to remake our world in response to the realities of climate change. They survey the technologies and innovations that are being deployed in this effort, and talk about what sorts of policy initiatives would be best-suited for the road ahead. While we might feel like our future will be full of sacrifices we're asked to make, Trancik explains that now is the time to shape a world in which we could live more equitably, efficiently, and comfortably. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Eliza Barkley, Fox's Science Health and Climate Editor.
0:05.0	This April, our podcaster teaming up to cover some of the most important issues threatening
0:09.3	life on Earth.
0:11.0	From sustainability to biodiversity to straight-up cool things about the natural world, we'll
0:16.3	focus on our planet and its limits in episodes throughout the month.
0:21.0	Tune in to today Explained, Fox Conversations, The Weeds, Unexplainable, Worldly, Future Perfect,
0:28.5	and Vox Quicks.
0:29.5	Want to listen to all the shows?
0:31.5	Find them at Vox.com slash Christmas.
0:35.5	Hey, this is Sean Eling, regular host of Vox Conversations.
0:44.3	As you might know, Vox.com is doing a whole spate of programming related to Earth Month.
0:49.7	Today on the show is my former and now occasional Vox colleague, David Roberts.
0:54.5	He's the author of the Vox Newsletter on Clean Energy and Policy and he's taking on the
0:59.2	Earth Month mission in a big way.
1:01.5	Here's the basic setup.
1:03.2	Our climate is changing, it's an emergency, we're running out of time to fix things so we're
1:07.8	going to have to change the way we live.
1:10.4	But what does that mean exactly?
1:12.2	What do we do?
1:13.8	In this episode, David talks with Jessica Transick, an MIT professor and climate researcher
1:18.3	about just that.
1:19.6	What should we do when we want to do things differently?
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