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How We Survive

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Business, News

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

For “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal, joining the Navy fresh out of college was one of the most consequential times of his life. It was the 1980s; the Cold War and the Soviet “evil empire,” in President Ronald Reagan’s words, was the greatest threat. Fast-forward through 40 years and one career change, and the threat looks different. Climate change does not have a face or a flag, but it will fundamentally change the way the U.S. military trains and fights. It already has.

In the sixth season of “How We Survive,” Ryssdal travels to far corners of the world, from a small Arctic village to a remote island in the Pacific. He shines a light on how the institution that shaped him could shape our climate future.

Transcript

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0:00.0	How does it feel it feel it be the one being interviewed? It's weird.
0:04.0	Are you nervous? Not yet.
0:06.0	All right. Do you want to give us a self-idee first?
0:09.0	Sure. My name is Kai Rizdahl and I'm the host and senior editor of Marketplace.
0:13.0	And before that?
0:14.3	How far back are we going?
0:15.4	To the 80s?
0:18.0	So I graduated from college in 1985 and when I had gone to college.
0:22.2	Long story short, I spent eight years in the United States Navy
0:26.0	flying and then on staff duty at the Pentagon.
0:28.0	What did you think that you would be fighting or protecting?
0:32.0	So remember this was 86. Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:38.0	Ronald Reagan was in the White House. It was the evil empire and the Cold War on Korbachev and all of that.
0:45.7	And that's what we were training for.
0:47.0	And my first deployments were to the North Atlantic, intercepting Russian bombers coming around the northern tip of Norway, flying down in
0:56.7	what was today, though, there's another threat out there.
0:59.9	This could be the warmest year on record.
1:02.0	Climate changes here.
1:03.1	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
1:06.6	Climate change is on fast forward.
1:10.4	The American military beltsers out more greenhouse gases than any other institution in the world.
1:16.0	The Pentagon has known about and has been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s,
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