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Outside/In

So Over Population [Part 1]

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re talking about population. How it went from being on the front pages of our newspapers and all over late night television to being the issue that you’ll only hear from out of the mouth of comic book super-villain Thanos. It's a big story, so we're spending two episodes on it. Also, we promised you a link to David Roberts' Vox piece, so here's that. Find more at outsideinradio.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, we should probably just start by introducing ourselves. Well, I'm Jimmy Gutierrez.

0:06.0

I'm Justin Paradise. You guys.

0:08.0

All right, we'll do that again.

0:09.0

Nope, too late. We're moving on.

0:11.0

Just to start us off, I'm going to give you to a little insight into this

0:15.8

thing that happens to anybody who writes about the environment. And to illustrate this, I went

0:19.6

and stood in front of our local independent bookseller and pestered people on the street.

0:24.0

Great place to find environmentalists.

0:27.0

If I were to ask you what you'd say the greatest threat to the environment is today,

0:32.0

what would you say it is?

0:33.1

So people are freaked out by all kinds of things.

0:35.4

The exhaust gasoline fumes.

0:38.6

Factory farming?

0:39.6

Yeah, probably, that's what I would say too.

0:41.7

Very powerful, very rich businesses

0:45.2

that are allowed to drill oil and dump all their waste

0:50.9

out with no consequences.

0:53.2

Probably emissions, but I'm not sure what the biggest cause is.

0:58.4

Generally speaking, there's one freak out that is dominant.

1:02.0

Climate change.

1:03.0

People talk about climate changing.

1:05.0

Climate change. Yeah, I guess I presume that that's what you were supposing

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