Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David-Wallace Wells allows fear — along with a storyteller’s appreciation for the human drama involved — to move him out of climate complacency. In We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer asks how individuals can change their behavior to create new climate-sensitive social norms. Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Katharine Hayhoe, Professor and Director, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University Jonathan Safran Foer, Author, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast David Wallace-Wells, Deputy Editor, New York Magazine; Author, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Helene York, Chief Procurement Officer, Guckenheimer Enterprises; Faculty Member, Food Business School, Culinary Institute of America Portions of this program were originally broadcast on June 28, 2019 and October 4, 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.2	On today's show, we revisit conversations earlier this year with two writers who confronted the climate challenge with new books in 2019.
1:25.5	I've now written two books on eating animals, and I don't know what I think about the
1:30.4	philosophical question at the bottom of it.
1:33.2	Jonathan Saffron 4 wrote about consuming meat in his 2009 book, Eating Animals.
1:38.7	In his most recent work, We Are the Weather, Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast.
1:43.2	He asks how individuals can change their behavior to create new climate-sensitive norms.
1:48.4	He'll join us in the second part of today's show, after we peer at a world that's warmed
1:52.6	two to four degrees Celsius since the dawn of the industrial era.
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