Should I have kids? Move? Recycle? Your climate questions answered

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow this weekend, Sam chats with climate experts Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist and writer, and Kendra Pierre-Louis, senior climate reporter with the podcast 'How to Save a Planet.' Together, they answer listener questions about everything from how to talk to your kids about global warming... to how to deal with all of this existential dread.

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:03.6	This week, answering your questions about climate change.
0:07.8	Alright, let's start the show.
0:09.6	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:14.6	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:15.6	Beginning this weekend, the UN will hold a conference on climate change in Glasgow.
0:22.0	And as you've heard by now, more than ever, scientists have said it is very critical for
0:26.8	us to start making some really big changes to avoid the most catastrophic effects of global
0:32.5	warming.
0:33.7	Happy Halloween everybody.
0:35.4	The scares are coming from inside the house.
0:38.5	Climate change is here.
0:40.3	You know, climate change is such a big problem for everyone that I sometimes find it very
0:45.2	difficult to even talk about, both in my personal life and frankly on this show.
0:51.2	But all that aside, I am still kind of hopeful, because I think that hope is something we should
0:56.4	have, something we have to have for this kind of thing, right?
0:59.8	I mean, that's what the posters tell me.
1:01.9	That is the thing that keeps people going and sad movies and TV shows.
1:06.2	Hope.
1:07.2	Are y'all hopeful?
1:08.8	Do you ever feel the defeatist streak of it?
1:12.3	No.
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