The false promise of climate havens; plus, the 'help' in horror

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Extreme weather is becoming more frequent. Now some towns that were touted as "safe" are seeing hurricanes, floods or heat waves. This week, host Brittany Luse is joined by NPR climate solutions reporter Julia Simon and NPR culture reporter Chloe Veltman to understand misconceptions around "climate havens" and what it means to preserve culture in the face of the climate crisis.

Then, Brittany continues her Trilogy of Terror series with an unexpected horror trope: scary service workers. She invites Bowdoin College English professor Aviva Briefel and Slate writer Joshua Rivera to break down how the maids, murderers, and motel workers in horror reveal different cultural anxieties about eating the rich.

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0:17.0	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
0:27.3	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:45.0	This week we are connecting the dots between Hula's Climate Havens and 3D scans. I know, I know. How are all of these things connected?
0:49.0	Well, we're going to find out with NPR Culture Correspondent Chloe Veltman and Climate Solutions reporter Julia Simon.
0:55.0	Chloe, Julia, welcome to it, it's been a minute.
0:57.6	Hi, it's lovely to be here.
0:59.0	Thanks for having me.
1:00.3	First off, do you feel safe from climate change where you live?
1:05.0	Oh, absolutely not.
1:07.0	Yeah, I'm in San Francisco. We are on the coast.
1:10.0	And Brittany, I also live in the Bay Area, Chloe and I don't think that any of us should think of our geography as the primary thing that will keep us safe with climate change.
1:22.4	I think a lot of it's going to be
1:24.2	about whether our communities prepare or not. I mean I live in New York City and it has
1:29.0	been wild to see how things have changed because of global warming.
1:33.2	I mean, I think New York always gets hot the summer,
1:35.3	but just a few years ago, we got reclassified as a humid sub-tropical climate.
1:41.2	And last year, we started getting really bad
1:43.4	wildfire smoke and orange skies that I had never experienced before.
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