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Poles Apart: Why We Turn Against Each Other

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Intelligence Squared

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4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In their recent book, Poles Apart, behavioural scientist Alex Chesterfield, public affairs specialist Laura Osborne and political advisor Ali Goldsworthy look at what factors drive society apart and what can help bring it back together. Economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh hosts a wide-ranging discussion with the authors exploring not only the cultural forces at play, but also the economic, political and social media triggers that tip people from healthy disagreement into dangerous hostility.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

0:06.2

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

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Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya

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Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis

0:22.0

It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

0:28.5

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered

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Irrigation and their training people such as Pauline to grow vegetables with support

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She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school

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With your help practical action can do even more regenerating depleted land into productive farms

0:50.5

repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

0:55.4

Please take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality

0:59.5

Your donation can help build a world where the lives and livelihoods of the world's poorest people are no longer at the mercy of climate change or

1:07.2

Environmental degradation while there's still time visit practical action dot org to get involved

1:12.6

You're listening to intelligence squared today

1:15.2

We hear from the authors of the recently published book Paul's apart

1:17.8

They discuss the forces that are tearing society apart and how we can bring people back together

1:22.3

Here's the host Linda you with more

1:25.2

I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Ali Goldsworthy Laura Osborne and Alex Chesterfield who are here to talk about their new book

1:33.4

Paul's apart. They are

1:35.4

respectively an expert on polarization a behavioral scientist and a professional

1:41.2

communicator Ali is a former deputy chair of the liberal Democrats

1:44.7

Laura is managing director and spokesperson at London first the voice of London's largest businesses and

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