Drilled Presents: A Matter of Degrees

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week we're bringing you a great episode from A Matter of Degrees: "The Devious Plan to Keep Us Hooked on Gas." Co-hosted by Leah Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson, A Matter of Degrees is a podcast for climate-curious people who know climate change is a problem, but are trying to figure out how to tackle it.
Check them out wherever you get your pods: https://www.degreespod.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Drilled, I'm Amy Westervalt.
0:12.8	Today we're bringing you an episode from the show A Matter of Degrees.
0:17.2	You heard a few bits of it last episode and you've heard from A Matter of Degrees co-host
0:22.6	Leah Stokes a couple of times this season.
0:25.5	The show is hosted by her and Catherine Wilkinson and they delved into all sorts of areas
0:32.1	around climate solutions.
0:34.4	They're both amazing researchers and really smart thinkers on this subject.
0:39.2	I highly recommend checking this show out and I thought you would particularly enjoy this
0:44.0	episode because it delves into a little more detail about what SoCal gas was getting
0:49.7	up to in Santa Barbara a couple of years ago.
0:53.2	Leah and we'll see you back next week for the continuation of season 6 part 2, the
0:57.8	new climate villains.
1:21.4	Americans get hit with a lot of robo calls and spam text messages, warning of an impounded
1:26.5	car or expiring insurance or that you've just won a cruise trip.
1:31.1	If you could just hand over your credit card, your social security number and maybe the
1:35.0	keys to your house.
1:36.3	At the end of 2020, the residents of Santa Barbara, California, the city where I live, got
1:41.1	a different kind of spam text.
1:44.8	So it's like December, the end of December.
1:47.9	As everybody's on holiday and all of a sudden we start getting notices that people are
1:53.5	getting texts.
1:54.8	These texts weren't selling a product.
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