Will Donald Trump 2.0 destroy the earth?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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When the COP29 host country opens the own conference by extolling the virtues of fossil fuels, you know you’re off to a good start. Keir Starmer didn’t let that put him off. He announced ambitious new targets for Britain’s carbon reductions - almost as if the world’s most famous climate denier hadn’t just won the US election. Is it all pie in the sky? Or does Starmer reckon his targets can outlast Donald Trump?
Later, Justin Welby has resigned as the Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time that’s ever happened - after acknowledging a conspiracy of cover up over child abuse within the church. Why are major institutions like the actually Church of England still getting this so wrong?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | I said it several months ago, and now all those who want, I mean international media, to attack me, |
| 0:20.5 | just quote me that I said that this is a gift of the God. |
| 0:24.1 | And I want to repeat it today here at this audience. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a gift of the God, every natural resource. |
| 0:30.9 | So that's all going well in Baku then, in Azerbaijan, where COP 29 has just begun. |
| 0:36.6 | And the Azerbaijan President Aliyev is praising |
| 0:40.5 | the one kind of fuel that they are all gathered to try and stop using. This sounds a bit more |
| 0:47.9 | drill, baby drill. Kirstama, who is in Baku, says that there is still a golden opportunity for Britain in fighting climate change. |
| 0:57.4 | But as Donald Trump prepares to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accords, |
| 1:02.2 | the real question is, what's left? |
| 1:04.5 | Can the planet still be saved? |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:11.3 | The newsagents. The news agents. |
| 1:13.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:13.7 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:14.7 | And Kirstama, I guess had the stage pretty much to himself today because so many of the other |
| 1:19.4 | leaders have decided not to go. |
| 1:21.6 | And we don't know whether that's because they don't fundamentally believe that |
| 1:25.7 | COP achieves enough or that hosted in Azerbaijan by people who are still very dependent on the fossil fuels and indeed worship them, quite literally, might not be the best environment in which to talk about climate change, or whether there is a feeling that with Trump in the White House, in coming, there is just |
| 1:46.5 | less point in setting targets. But the curious thing about Stama was he didn't hold back this |
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