So I saw this cartoon the other day and it showed two dinosaurs and they were looking up at this giant

meteor and one yells to the other, oh no, the economy.

And you know, it just makes you think,

do you think there's something absurd

about looking at this existential problem

from a financial standpoint?

Yeah, I absolutely do, actually.

I have a lot of sympathy for that argument.

There's a school of thought which is that, you know, talking about things in terms of the economy

tends to make people listen who might not otherwise want to listen or be inclined

to listen.

And a lot of people feel that it's safer to talk about climate change in the context of finance and the economy.

Being in the US people are very nervous about straying into something that they think

is political or politicized and that in turn has created this kind of aversion to talking

about it in a really broad and robust way and unfortunately it's a simple rubric for kind of analyzing and thinking about climate change.

It does make it kind of easier for people to get their heads around.

Now to a dire warning about climate change.

According to a new report, experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe.

It also says if unprecedented changes are not made and made soon there will be irreversible

damage to the planet.

One of the world's coldest regions is witnessing a record number of wildfires.

The heat wave has lit a match to the Arctic.

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