UK Election Results, Colorado River Crisis, Florida Climate Change

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

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Britain's Labour Party won the UK general election by a landslide, ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule. The US government is using new tactics to address the problem of critically low water levels in the Colorado River, and Republican voters in Florida reject the idea of man-made climate change despite Florida being among the states most vulnerable to climate disasters.

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0:00.0	Labor Party leader Kere Starmer is Britain's next Prime Minister.
0:06.0	Today we start the next chapter, begin the work of change, the mission of national renewal.
0:13.0	Well, will his new center left government look like?
0:15.0	I'm Steve Inskyep with Leela Falo, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.0	Water levels in the Colorado River are critically low and most of the federal
0:26.2	response is focused on funding conservation. Is it a better idea to spend money
0:30.6	on finding new sources of water. Florida is vulnerable to extreme
0:34.4	weather events like hurricanes and heat waves and it's also solidly Republican
0:38.9	a party that rejects the idea of man-made climate change.
0:42.8	How are both ideas coexisting in the minds of voters?
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