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.

On the program today, the A-list economic indicator out this morning and why you, yes you, get the credit, then we'll go for an electric

helicopter ride from American public media. This is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizdahl.

It is Thursday, today, the 26th of September.

Good as always, to have you along everybody.

Take everything that happens in this economy.

Every widget made, every service rendered, everything. Add it all up, we're talking

dollar amounts here, and what you get is those three little letters we have talked about

oh so many times on this program,

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