The Uncertain Future
How We Survive
Marketplace
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
After spending nearly a year exploring U.S. national security and climate change, some big questions remain: Should the American military be smaller? Is that even possible? And what about the upcoming election; Could it upend the military’s climate focus? In our last episode of the season, host Kai Ryssdal reflects on his past and explores the possibilities for the military’s future.
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| 0:00.0 | Jake, we're all, all right. You're not as nervous this time around? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. You know, you're a known quantity now, |
| 0:10.8 | Alex. Right, right. We told you back in episode one that this season of how we survive was going to be a little bit different. And it has been. So at the end of all the reporting and traveling and talking to people |
| 0:24.6 | I found myself back in the studio with producers Haley Hirschman and Sophia |
| 0:29.5 | Polizocar. This is where my responsibility is ending. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, Kyra's doll, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:35.0 | So great to see you again. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm... |
| 0:38.0 | You're too funny. |
| 0:39.0 | Not going to ask you anything you don't know the answer to, so... |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, no, you're killing me. How does to so no you're killing me but in all |
| 0:46.8 | seriousness we're wrapping up the season how are you feeling I'm feeling. I mean we have gone all over the place trying to |
| 0:55.8 | find the answer to these questions of what it means for the American military and |
| 1:00.6 | American national security as the planet gets hotter and we haven't |
| 1:05.2 | answered all the questions but I think all the questions we posed we've shed some |
| 1:10.2 | daylight on so I'm feeling pretty good. Here's one just to like to set the table and see if you |
| 1:16.3 | have an answer to this, but if you had to sum up your experience, Kai, with this season, in one word word what would that be? |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, huh. |
| 1:27.0 | There's a little bit of nostalgia, right? |
| 1:30.0 | I mean I felt it when we were up at the 525th in Alaska. I certainly felt that on |
| 1:35.6 | Quaj and in the Pentagon. Stuff that was familiar yet different changed over time. |
| 1:45.0 | As I said the first time we did this before episode one, right? |
| 1:49.0 | The American military, my service was a formative time in my life and it's weird to have gone back to |
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