Save the Planet! Part 1: I'm Gonna Take My Clothes Off

Note to Self

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🗓️ 2 August 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, five episodes for five ways we can do better by the planet. First: warm up, strip down. Rethink the air conditioner.

With David Biello, science curator for TED.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, question.
0:10.7	How freaked out are you about climate change?
0:13.8	How freaked out are you that no one seems to be doing much about climate change?
0:20.9	I'm Anouche Summerodi and note to self, little things can matter.
0:30.0	This is the first of five mini episodes that we've made for you this month.
0:34.7	Five ways that we can do better by planet Earth is individuals collectively with our technology
0:40.4	choices and habits.
0:45.4	All five of these episodes are available right now so you can become an eco-warrior and power through
0:50.9	them all or save them week by week whatever works for you and your brain.
0:57.1	Because it is so easy to feel overwhelmed by what is happening to our planet.
1:02.2	And so that's why the note to self team decided to channel our collective environmental anxiety into this series.
1:09.8	You're going to hear about inventions and ideas that you may be familiar with,
1:14.8	but others I'm willing to bet you had no idea about.
1:19.1	I am David Biello and I'm the science curator at TED Talks as well as the author of The Unnatural World.
1:32.2	And are you still contributing to scientific?
1:34.8	And I am a contributing editor at Scientific American. You've got all my titles now.
1:38.3	I have them all awesome. Okay, so here's what we know and this is why we've gotten you in here.
1:45.2	We know that the world is warming.
1:48.0	We know that if it continues on like this, we humans are not going to be able to live or deal with the
1:54.6	effects of rising seas and rising temperatures. This is scaring the crap out of a lot of us.
2:01.8	I don't know if you saw the New York magazine cover article called The Uninhabitable Earth.
2:07.8	The story just spread like wildfire pun intended.
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