Kai on the military and climate change
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Kai Ryssdal takes over the mic today as he digs into the U.S. military’s climate change paradox. While the military is fueling the climate crisis, it’s also on the frontlines of the fallout. It’s an issue that hits home for Kai, a Navy veteran. And it’s all part of the latest season of Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast, “How We Survive.” Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody it's Kai. Today we're bringing you an episode from the latest season of |
| 0:04.0 | How We Survive Marketplace's Climate Solutions Podcast hosted by yours truly. This season the |
| 0:10.0 | How We Survive team and I travel to remote corners of the world to understand how the |
| 0:14.2 | U.S. military is dealing with the threat of climate change. |
| 0:17.5 | In this episode, I get into what it was like to serve in the military during the Cold War |
| 0:21.6 | in the 1980s, and we explore the history of how the military |
| 0:24.6 | came to see climate change as a threat multiplier. We cannot do this reporting without your support. |
| 0:30.7 | We are kicking off our fall fundraiser today. We want to hear |
| 0:33.4 | from the first 2,500 marketplace investors by October the 4th. So please |
| 0:38.0 | make your please make your very first donation today. That's what I |
| 0:41.8 | really sound like. Or chip in again to tell us you like what you're hearing give what you can at |
| 0:46.7 | Marketplace dot org slash give smart or follow the link in our show notes and with that here we go. |
| 0:55.0 | How does it feel it be the one being interviewed? It's weird. |
| 0:56.0 | Are you nervous? |
| 0:57.0 | Not yet. |
| 0:58.0 | This season of how we survive is going to be a little different. |
| 1:02.0 | All right, we're all? |
| 1:03.0 | Do you want to give us a self-idee first? |
| 1:05.0 | Sure. |
| 1:07.0 | My name is Kai Rizdahl and I'm the host and senior editor of Marketplace. |
| 1:11.0 | That's producers Haley Hirschman and Caitlinesh turning the tables on me. |
| 1:15.5 | And before that? |
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