Our favorite climate numbers #3

Zero: The Climate Race

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Technology, Business, Science

4.7 • 219 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Are fossil fuel companies needed in a clean energy future? Is the UK really backsliding on climate progress? And how can you find out more about solar? In the last episode of Zero for 2024, host Akshat Rathi and producers Oscar Boyd and Christine Driscoll talk about some of their favorite statistics that show people taking action on the climate crisis.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zero. I'm Oscar Boyd. And I'm Christine Driscoll. We're the producers on Zero,
0:06.9	wishing you a very happy end to 2023. And we are joined, as always, by Axshat Rathy. Akshak, welcome.
0:13.1	Hey. Loquacious as ever.
0:15.6	So, as it's the holiday season, and everything's a bit quiet at the end of the year,
0:20.1	we thought we'd bring back our popular climate guessing game and we're calling it, whose number is it
0:25.6	anyway?
0:26.6	Super fans of the show will be familiar already, but the rules are simple.
0:30.0	Each one of us presents a number and then the other two have to figure out what that number
0:34.0	represents.
0:35.2	Each person can ask three questions, you can ask for clues if you get stuck and then you have to guess.
0:41.3	And as always, the thing I care about is the prize.
0:45.3	Yeah, this game is all about prizes. Last time the very lucky winner,
0:49.3	Christine, got a copy of your book, Aksha. This time the prize is probably our best one yet. All the way,
0:57.0	from Cup 28, from the Arabian desert, a jar of sand. I love this. Okay. I guess it's
1:03.8	more real than the first prize, which was a carbon offset. Yeah. I mean, it exists. It's
1:09.2	in a jar. I think I'm more motivated than ever to win.
1:12.1	You make it such low stakes.
1:13.8	It's so fun.
1:14.9	Okay, so let's play.
1:16.0	Whose number is it anyway?
1:22.5	Oscar, would you please go first?
1:24.7	All right.
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