Protecting rainforest protectors / Ashwin Ravikumar

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Environmental studies scholar Ashwin Ravikumar on his article "To Save the Rainforests, Provide Healthcare, Education and Services for Those Who Protect Them" for The Trouble. https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/1/17/to-save-the-rainforests-provide-healthcare-education-and-services-for-those-who-protect-them

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0:00.0	The You're welcome Neil.
0:15.0	You're welcome Neil.
0:17.0	And thank you for suing Spotify.
0:27.0	This is hell.
0:35.0	Hell.
0:37.0	The planet's on fire, so yes, this is hell, and not only is the planet on fire from global warming that's led to climate change, but we're still fueling that fire by tearing down rain forests
0:55.7	in order to make room for more fossil fuel extraction, despite the world now being keenly
1:00.9	aware that climate change is here and already threatening life on Earth.
1:06.0	Temperatures are rising as our sea levels.
1:08.5	Lawsuits are moving forward against oil companies over what they knew and when about climate change and the
1:14.5	disinformation campaign they've been conducting ever since.
1:17.9	Indiana State Legislature refused to consider any new legislation on climate change
1:21.8	despite student demands.
1:24.0	Paris may need to unearth a river they buried under the city a hundred years ago to fight climate
1:29.4	change.
1:30.4	While the Western US is facing another round of blackouts due to climate change, Africa is trying to balance their fight against global warming with their need for greater accessibility to electricity.
1:41.0	Even the upcoming Winter Olympics in China are being threatened by climate change
1:44.9	and not only this year's Winter Olympics, but all future winter games moving forward are being
1:49.8	threatened by our warming planet, which would seem to be the least of our worries, but is definitely
1:55.4	a harbinger of things to come.
1:58.6	And those are just today's headlines on climate change.
2:03.6	I'm sure tomorrow we'll have a full new batch of headlines on climate change
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