Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope – podcast

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Reconstruction after Covid: a new series of long reads It’s easy to despair at the climate crisis, or to decide it’s already too late – but it’s not. Here’s how to keep the fight alive by Rebecca Solnit. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:10.3	Hi, I'm David Wolff, the editor of the Guardian Longread.
0:14.2	From inequality to loneliness, the climate crisis to racial injustice,
0:18.4	COVID-19 has exposed just how broken our societies are.
0:22.3	Today, as we slowly begin our recovery, what can we do to rebuild a better world?
0:27.0	In 1921, the Guardian editor C.P. Scott commissioned John Maynard Keynes to curate a series of essays
0:34.6	on the economic revival of post-war Europe. That groundbreaking series, Reconstruction in Europe,
0:40.4	included contributions from leading economists, politicians and Nobel laureates, and Keynes himself.
0:47.9	To mark the Guardian's 200th anniversary, we are taking inspiration from C.P. Scott's idea.
0:52.8	In the coming weeks, we will be publishing essays by leading thinkers that will tell a story
0:57.4	about how we got to where we are now and where we need to go next.
1:01.6	Welcome to Reconstruction after COVID.
1:04.8	Welcome to the Guardian Longread, showcasing the best long-form journalism covering culture,
1:09.6	politics and new thinking. For the text version of this and all our long reads, go to the Guardian.com
1:15.0	for its last long read. Ten ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope by Rebecca
1:23.7	Solnett, read by Kelly Burke and produced by Esther O'Pocko-Ginney. The world as we knew it
1:32.3	is coming to an end, and it's up to us how it ends and what comes after. It's the end of the
1:39.5	age of fossil fuel, but if the fossil fuel corporations have their way, the ending will be
1:44.6	delayed as long as possible, with as much carbon burned as possible. If the rest of us prevail,
1:51.5	we will radically reduce our use of those fuels by 2030 and almost entirely by 2050.
1:59.5	We will meet climate change with real change and defeat the fossil fuel industry in the next
2:06.0	nine years. If we succeed, those who come after will look back on the age of fossil fuel as an
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