Our favorite climate numbers

Zero: The Climate Race

Bloomberg

Technology, Business, Science

4.7 • 219 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Where’s all the oil money going? What’s happening with cycling in France? And how far behind China is the US on solar? There are many climate numbers out there that we don’t get to talk about on Zero but that deserve attention. In this bonus episode, host Akshat Rathi and producers Christine Driscoll and Oscar Boyd talk about some of their favorite stats showing 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. And we're the producers of Zero.
0:10.0	And joining us is our host, Act Chat, Rathy. ActShack, good to have you here. Nice to be here. Thanks for accosting me.
0:16.9	Well, we had to accost you because we are doing something different today. We are going to play a game.
0:21.8	A guessing game.
0:23.6	And I get to win?
0:24.7	You might win.
0:25.7	I don't know.
0:26.7	We'll have to see.
0:27.7	But as you know, we are always talking about climate numbers that are out there.
0:31.9	We are like seeing percentages, the lowering cost of different technologies.
0:36.5	And so we wanted to spend an episode talking about
0:39.4	some of the good numbers that we come across. And so we thought it would be fun for people to
0:43.4	listen in as we try to get each other to guess some of these positive numbers. So, Oscar, can you
0:49.3	provide us some structure of how the game is going to go? The rules. Yes. So the game is simple.
0:54.2	Each of us will present one number and then the other two have to figure out what that number represents.
0:59.7	Each person they can ask three questions, also ask for a few clues if you get stuck, and
1:04.5	then you have to guess.
1:05.5	Akshad, do you copy?
1:07.1	I do.
1:08.1	It's simple enough.
1:09.3	Okay, great.
1:10.3	So we're just going to do a practice round right now.
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