Protecting Our Environment, with Gina McCarthy

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🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What will it take to keep Earth habitable for humanity? Neil Tyson finds out from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. Also featuring environmental blogger Andrew Revkin, science historian Naomi Oreskes, co-host Maeve Higgins and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:24.0	I am your personal astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:28.0	And tonight we're going to be talking about keeping Earth habitable for humans.
0:34.0	And in the United States there is an agency charged with doing just that.
0:38.0	It is the Environmental Protection Agency.
0:41.0	And we will be featuring my interview with the head of that agency, Gina McCarthy.
0:45.0	So let's do this.
0:51.0	All right.
0:55.0	As you know, I never do this alone.
0:57.0	I always need some help.
0:59.0	And so tonight we have back as Star Talk comedian, Mae Higgins.
1:03.0	Mae, welcome back.
1:04.0	Thank you.
1:05.0	Thank you.
1:07.0	I am...
1:08.0	I'm out of prison and...
1:10.0	Yeah, out of prison, they just...
1:11.0	I'm scared.
1:12.0	And thank you for giving me this back.
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