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🗓️ 21 October 2021
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0:00.0 | Climate change. I know. It's something you should care about, but it's also maybe too depressing to think about. |
0:07.0 | But what if there were a show about climate change that you actually wanted to listen to that didn't leave you anxious and hopeless, |
0:14.0 | but energized and filled with possibility? A show that actually made you laugh. |
0:19.0 | Each week, our crew of climate nerds looks headlong at the mess we're in and brings you solutions for how to get out of it. |
0:26.0 | And we will stop at nothing to make our show about climate solutions entertaining. |
0:31.0 | We'll comb through thousands of popular songs to find the perfect climate anthem. Wait, is this Pitbull? |
0:38.0 | The song is by Pitbull, your cracked Alex. It's called Global Warming. |
0:42.0 | I believe it's on the album Global Warming not to be confused with the album Climate Change, because he has both. |
0:48.0 | Oh my god, what? Will impersonate sentient recycling bins? Are we serving a real purpose or are we just bullsh**? |
0:55.0 | We will even eat baked goods made with the climate saving crop kelp and find colorful ways to market them. |
1:05.0 | Is it appropriate to say diarrhea green? It sells itself. |
1:12.0 | And we will talk with tons of smart, amazing, inspiring people who are helping forge a path to a cleaner, greener world. |
1:20.0 | One of the leaders of an indigenous tribe out west, a tribe that came up with a solution to climate change so smart that the UN gave them an award. |
1:29.0 | You make money from that land by simply making sure that that ecosystem preserves. |
1:35.0 | It's a good idea, right? I'd give myself an award. |
1:38.0 | Or the farmers in Minnesota who radically changed the way they farmed to make more money, use fewer pesticides, and capture carbon. |
1:47.0 | Their neighbors complained that their fields didn't look as pretty. |
1:50.0 | They'd say it was a weedy mess, that it was just to feel the weeds. |
1:54.0 | Her greed ought to walk it up to us and said, all the lazy farmers doing. |
1:57.0 | Or the entrepreneur who's buying and destroying an incredibly potent greenhouse gas called freon. |
2:04.0 | From, well, anyone who'll sell it to him. |
2:08.0 | As I recall, not only did he have no pants on, but he also had no shirt on. |
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