Will we be OK? Facing the Climate Emergency

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Could there be cause for optimism on climate change? Do individuals have power over our planet’s future? Paul Behrens, author of new book The Best Of Times The Worst Of Times, tells Ros Taylor about the best and worst climate scenarios, why women’s rights are the key to a manageable future, meat, flying, renewables… and how to avoid falling into impotent despair about tomorrow. “We might have been able to save ourselves with minor changes once. Now we need a complete overhaul in the way we live our lives.” “The carrying capacity of a planet of carnivores is very different from a planet of vegetarians.” “There’s a clear path from eco-anxiety to hope, through action.” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
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1:08.9	Hello and welcome to a new bunker daily I'm Ros Taylor all my life I've been addicted to news I could never really understand people who avoided it and who didn't want to know, 2020 changed a lot of things and that was one of them. I still
1:16.1	thrive on it most of the time but the relentless bad news has frequently got to me too and that's
1:21.1	just COVID-19. The climate crisis seems a thousand times more
1:25.6	intractable but there is cause for optimism as well naturally as pessimism and
1:30.2	that's the premise for new book The Best of Times, the Worst of Times, by Paul Behrens.
1:35.0	Paul is an assistant professor at Leiden University and is joining me to talk about how to avoid sinking into impotent despair at the situation we're in.
1:42.0	Welcome to the bunker, Paul. into impotent despair at the situation we're in.
1:42.8	Welcome to the bunker pool.
1:44.8	Great to join you.
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