What Will It Take to Actually Tackle the Climate Crisis?

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A new report this week from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presents a brutal picture of the devastation already caused by human-created climate change. It is a dire warning about a worsening future without swift, dramatic action to reduce warming. To slow down the pace of climate change, the report says, we need to stop emitting carbon dioxide altogether and dramatically reduce other greenhouse gas emissions. Most of this we’ve known for a long time. But what will it actually take to make the change? In this hour we talk about actionable political, social and technological solutions to climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2	Music Welcome to Forum.
0:47.0	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.7	Yesterday, the hundreds of climate scientists who make up the intergovernmental panel on climate change
0:53.9	released their latest massive report. The sixth in a series stretching back decades and the first since 2013.
1:00.0	Listen, this is the Bay Area.
1:02.0	You've probably already heard the news about the report and likely understood the core problems of climate change many years ago.
1:07.0	Under any scenario, scientists, consider we need to act and we need to act fast.
1:11.7	So today, we have a panel for you to talk about what needs to be done, the politics that
1:15.7	will underpin the future, and which technologies are ready to go. That'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:38.8	In 2009, I remember covering an intergovernmental panel on climate change meeting that was taking place in Bali.
1:45.4	And 12 years ago, the scientific consensus on climate change was fully established.
1:50.4	Burning too much fossil fuel, along with a host of other human activities, was deranging the atmosphere,
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