The Wicked Problem of Climate Change with Andrew Revkin

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Why is it so hard to focus attention on the climate crisis? We know the damage we’re doing to the climate and we know why we’re doing it. We even know the obstacles to the solution (fossil fuel companies, denialist political parties) and yet it’s still a challenge to keep the issue front and center. After spending 30 years covering the climate crisis, Andrew Revkin knows what it’s like to be sounding the alarms that seem to fall on deaf ears. In this episode, Revkin talks about the huge role social science plays when it comes to talking about climate, explores what it would take to get the world to pay attention, and explains why he says, in his expert opinion, we’re already “in the shit”. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening

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0:00.0	Anytime I think of a Tesla, I try in my mind to remind myself about the Ford F-150 pickup truck.
0:05.2	It's the best selling car in history, year after year, yet year.
0:08.4	It's not a car, but it's technically kind of a car.
0:10.5	It's a great truck.
0:11.5	So, like, don't talk to me about Tesla, so that I'm talking to me about Ford F-150 pickup trucks, too.
0:16.1	So, I'm like this bummer, you know? I just kind of...
0:18.8	People call me, you know, all those things.
0:21.5	I don't know why, because you're just... because you're so...
0:23.7	Because you're describing the wickedness of the problem.
0:26.2	Someone has to do it.
0:30.6	Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me?
0:33.1	Your host, Chris Hayes.
0:37.3	So, I'm going to do something in this episode that I almost certainly shouldn't do,
0:41.3	particularly in this intro.
0:43.6	In fact, even as I think about doing it right now, I'm telling myself that maybe this is a
0:48.1	terrible idea, but Tiffany Champion is going to decide.
0:51.7	But I'm going to try to do it anyway, because it sets important contacts for the conversation
0:59.5	we're going to have today. So, a little while ago, I retweeted an article about just some of a
1:07.2	crazy climate chaos that's been happening this summer.
1:10.7	I mean, specifically, there were wildfires and grease that were driving people to jump into
1:15.8	the sea to escape them, and there were a lot of deaths there.
1:20.4	And I retweeted and I said, something like the crisis continues.
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