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.

People will go to see movies derived from existing brands, but will they pay to see anything else?

I'm David Brancaccio in New York starting with the business of entertainment.

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's latest work is attracting very little interest at the box office.

Coppola paid $120 million out of his own wallet

to make Megalopolis, but it made just $4 million

in its opening weekend.

Now, my father, the literature professor,

would have pointed out that Melville's Moby Dick considered

one of the great works of literature flopped on its initial release.

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