The Changing Threat

How We Survive

Marketplace

Business, News

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, the White House and the Department of Defense recognize climate change as a threat to national security. And the military is on the front lines of having to deal with the fallout.

In this episode, “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal remembers what it was like serving in the military during the Cold War tensions of the 1980s. He visits a Navy research lab that studies warfighter performance in extreme temperatures, where he becomes a guinea pig. And he explores how climate change has become a “threat multiplier.”

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0:00.0	How does it feel to be the one being interviewed? It's weird. Are you nervous?
0:04.0	Not yet. This season of how we survive is going to be a little different.
0:09.0	All right, we're all? Do you want to give us a self-idee first?
0:12.0	Sure. My name is Kai Rizdahl and I'm the host and senior editor of Marketplace.
0:18.0	That's producers Haley Hirschman and Caitlinesh turning the tables on me.
0:22.0	And before that?
0:23.4	How far back are we going?
0:25.3	To the 80s?
0:26.3	Oh my God.
0:27.3	So to the 80s.
0:30.1	If you listen to Marketplace or if you follow me on social media, you know a little something about me.
0:35.2	I live in LA, I've got four kids. I'm a beer guy, hazy, IPAs only, thank you very much.
0:41.7	And if you're really tuned in,
0:43.6	you might have heard me mention that I'm a veteran.
0:46.2	I spent eight years in the Navy, flying,
0:48.6	and then on staff duty at the Pentagon.
0:50.8	I went to officer candidate school right after college.
0:54.0	So graduation was Juneish of 85.
0:57.8	Two weeks later I threw everything I owned in the trunk of my car and I drove from Atlanta
1:01.5	down to Pensacola, Florida, and I did 14 weeks of boot camp.
1:05.0	Do you have any first day memories?
1:07.0	Oh yeah.
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