Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

One word, four letters critical to this economy.

I know you think I'm going to say jobs right now? J-O-B-S. I'm not. From American public

media. This is market-class. In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizdahl. It is Thursday, today, the 10th of October. Good as always

to have you along, everybody. Consider if you would the data on which analysis of this economy depends. There is a lot of it. And that

data of late has been pretty good. Gross domestic product is growing 3% a year.

The much in the news labor market

added more than a quarter of a million new jobs last month, more than most

anybody had been guessing. And we learned just this morning that year-over-year inflation is the lowest it's been in better than

three years, 2.4% in September.

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