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Chasing Life

What on Earth Happens Next?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Shifts in our behavior during the pandemic have impacted the planet, but will these changes last? On this Earth Day, CNN climate reporter Drew Kann talks with Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Georgia Tech, about the connection between Covid-19 and climate change, and how we can keep up our green habits even after the pandemic is over.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We need to think kind of an intolerant way about how people can join the movement around

0:08.5

climate solutions from where they are with values that they already have, with passions

0:13.6

that they already have, and with constraints and opportunities that they already have.

0:17.4

And that will look different for every single person on the planet.

0:21.6

Kim Cobb is a climate scientist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

0:25.5

And that way we have everything we need to be a massive activator for climate solutions,

0:31.5

but taking the first step can seem very daunting.

0:35.8

She's been looking at how changes in our behavior during the pandemic have impacted the planet.

0:41.5

And perhaps, not surprisingly, many of these changes revolve around travel.

0:47.0

With millions of commuters staying at home in fewer airplanes flying, greenhouse gas emissions

0:52.3

have dropped significantly.

0:55.0

The question now is, will those changes last?

0:58.6

For Professor Cobb, it all comes down to what we do next.

1:03.0

We know we need to get to work, so we cannot let up on the gas on this one.

1:07.8

We are absolutely going to have to push forward and find energy together.

1:13.1

Today is Earth Day, a day for celebrating and appreciating our planet and raising awareness

1:19.4

of our environmental challenges.

1:21.7

So for this episode, I'm turning things over to my colleague Drew Can from CNN's Climate

1:26.8

Team.

1:27.8

He'll talk with Professor Cobb about the connection between the climate and the coronavirus

1:33.0

and how we can keep up our green habits even after the pandemic is behind this.

1:39.1

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

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