Am I The (Climate) A**hole?

How to Save a Planet

Gimlet

Science, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered if you were on the right side of an argument about climate change? Or just want to understand what everyday climate battles are worth fighting? A panel of expert climate judges take on the infamous Reddit thread ‘Am I The A**hole’ to issue judgments on climate-themed dilemmas. Along the way, we debate the ethics of roommate spats, office politics, baby showers and personal finances. Guests: Rollie Williams Calls to Action Better understand how much electricity the various appliances in your home are using. Check out this electricity calculator, to tell you how much electricity you’re using and how much it will cost you depending on where you are within the U.S. If you're in the market for a new heat pump, check out this Forbes article to get a better understanding of cost. Check out this video from This Old House to understand how heat pumps work. Also check out The Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency. Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. This episode was produced by Janae Morris. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Anna Ladd, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz, and Daniel Ackerman. Our supervising producer is Matt Shilts. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Our intern is Janae Morris. Sound design and mixing by Hansdale Hsu with original music by Peter Leonard and Emma Munger. Our fact checker for this episode is James Gaines. Special thx to Climate ethicist William Lynn. Thanks to all of you for listening. See you next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet.
0:04.8	This is the show about what we need to do to address climate change and how to make
0:08.6	those things happen.
0:15.9	Hello, everyone.
0:25.9	Before we start today's episode, I have a disclaimer, so we usually keep it pretty
0:30.1	clean on the show, but that won't be the case this week.
0:33.3	Today, you're going to be using a bad word, pretty consistently throughout the show.
0:38.1	It's not the worst bad word, but we're going to be saying it a lot, so we want to give
0:42.0	you a warning.
0:43.0	If you have kids or you don't like cursing, you're going to give you a second before you tell
0:46.2	you what the bad word is.
0:48.1	Okay, ready?
0:49.8	It's asshole.
0:51.2	We're going to be saying asshole a lot today because on today's episode, we're
0:55.8	playing sort of a game, an internet game, a game called MI the asshole.
1:02.2	And here to tell us more about that is how to save a planet producer, Janay Morris,
1:05.7	hey Janay.
1:06.7	Hi, Alex.
1:07.7	So explain MI the asshole.
1:09.4	It's probably familiar to many of our listeners, but just in case.
1:12.5	It's a forum that's on this gigantic website called Reddit, and it's one of the most
1:16.5	popular threads out here.
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