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

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

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

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

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

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

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

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

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

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

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

As the short era of companies taking stands on the great issues of the day, come to an end. I'm David Brancaccio in New York. Four weeks from now,

it'll be the morning after election night. This fall, we're looking at how companies

intensify or ease political divides by taking sides, taking stands, and

or bringing us together. Earlier in our office politics series, we heard from a

CEO who energetically supports Donald Trump, as well as a company that fiercely

supports getting people to vote for politicians who fight climate change.

Today, how some organizations are going quiet when it comes to issues.

Benjamin Franklin believed we should live our lives in service to society.

It's a four-year-old video from the admissions office at the University of Pennsylvania, referring to the guy who founded the place.

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