On Earth Day, What You Can Do For The Environment

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Happy (early) Earth Day, Short Wave listeners. We've received many questions from you about climate change, specifically what can individuals and households do to reduce their carbon footprint. So, we consulted two folks who have been thinking about this deeply and developing strategies for over a decade: Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, two architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.4	Hey everybody, Maddie is a fire here with Shortwave reporter Emily Kwong.
0:08.4	Hey, Maddie.
0:09.4	Hey you.
0:10.4	So Kwong, it's a listener question episode that we have perfectly timed because tomorrow
0:16.7	is Earth Day.
0:17.8	The 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
0:20.8	And yes, and you know what?
0:23.3	Earth is Shortwave's favorite planet.
0:25.5	We love you.
0:26.6	We love your tectonic plates.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.4	Absolutely.
0:30.4	You're many fungi and insects.
0:32.6	Kwong, favorite insect on three.
0:34.8	One, two, three.
0:36.2	Walking ladybug.
0:38.2	Ladybug.
0:39.2	But as we all know, our home planet is getting warmer.
0:45.5	We've had evidence of climate change since 1960 when Charles Keeling measured carbon dioxide
0:51.6	in the Earth's atmosphere and detected in annual rise.
0:55.5	And climate change has, of course, progressed significantly in the past few decades, bringing
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