The Amazon, the Colorado River and a price on nature

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From sea to shining sea, rivers in the United States are drying up, including the Colorado River. For indicators of the week, three environmental indicators about the state of Mother Nature.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.0	This is the Anticator from Planet Money.
0:13.0	I'm Darian Woods.
0:14.4	And I'm Whalen Wong.
0:15.4	It's been a big week in climate news following the recent signing of the Inflation Reduction
0:20.4	Act.
0:21.4	Which is basically a climate bill, right?
0:23.0	A little masquerade act, yes.
0:24.5	So, this week we want to check in on some environmental indicators.
0:28.9	That's right, for indicators of the week where we share our favourite stats which shed light
0:33.9	on the world, we've got three environmental economics indicators.
0:37.8	So we have the Colorado River Basin, which is just sunk to a new low.
0:41.7	We also got to the movies where we will learn about the Amazon and we've got a very special
0:46.0	guest who will bring us an exclusive tip from the White House about valuing the invaluable.
0:51.0	Stay tuned.
0:55.2	We are joined by our NPR colleague Nate Rot, who reports on the American West.
1:00.0	Hello Nate.
1:01.0	Hey, happy to be here.
1:02.0	Good to have you.
1:03.0	And we will save you for last.
1:04.6	And best of last, you know, I get it.
1:06.2	Best of last.
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