My name is Ali Abdal. I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur and author of The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, Feel Good Productivity, which, very excitingly, is now available in paperback.

And really the core thesis of the book is that if you want to be more productive in a way that's actually enjoyable, meaningful, meaningful and enjoyable, it means we're more productive, we're more creative, we're less stressed, and we have more energy to give to the other important areas of our life.

So if any of that sounds good, you might like to check the book out.

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Today, we'd like you to meet climate journalist Peter Schwarstein.

The climate crisis is fueling violence and empowering terrorists and oppressive leaders across the globe.

Peter has been reporting on this frontier and connecting the dots between rising temperatures and rising violence.

When in late 2013, ISIS recruiters first targeted the Thar-Thar-Ary of central Iraq, they arrived

with a grimly effective plan in hand. They went for some of the most drought-battered villagers,

conscious of how hard they would find it to resist the cash. They made some of the most forceful

pitches to those whose small fields looked extra pitiful after consecutive years of weak rains

and fiercer heat. Aware of the depth of distrust of government, after so many years of conflict,

recruiters even got adept at casting these conditions as a product of state action. That drought?

One villager remembered an ISIS member telling him that it was because of government

scientists' manipulation of the weather, just another emmiserating middle finger from authorities

out to get them. ISIS varied its tactics elsewhere in Iraq and Syria. Sometimes they preyed on

the most shabbily dressed men at livestock markets. On other occasions, they doled out

gifts of food and cash just as harvest failed.

However, in focusing on farming communities, they were brutally consistent.

The more water deprived the village, the more they visited it, the poorer the farmers,

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