S5 E6: "We Don't Have the Power to Fight It"

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence – for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeria. Part 6 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Reported by Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo, with reporting and production assistance from Nchetachi Chukwuaja and Tim Cuttings Agber. The series story editor is Cheryl Devall. Mix by John Biewen.

Music in this episode by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, Alex Weston, Fabian Almazan, and Maetar. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

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0:00.0	Season 5 is made possible in part by listeners who have supported our show and by a grant
0:11.3	from the International Women's Media Foundation.
0:16.1	Amy the other day I was thinking back to my youth, those days of innocence, and trying
0:22.5	to remember the first time I heard the words global warming, which is of course what
0:27.6	people called it back then.
0:29.7	And did you remember, do you remember the very first time?
0:33.2	I cannot remember the very first time specifically, but it was probably the late 70s-ish, the later
0:40.2	Jimmy Carter years, which was around the time you were arriving in the world I think.
0:46.0	Mm-hmm, 78, yep.
0:48.1	Okay.
0:49.1	You started to see stuff in the newspapers and on TV in those years.
0:53.7	That's so interesting, it must have sounded exotic, kind of science fiction-y maybe.
0:58.9	Wait, what?
0:59.9	The whole planet is going to get warmer because of this stuff that people are pumping into
1:03.4	the atmosphere, so abstract.
1:05.9	I thought it's just the air up there, right?
1:08.6	The stuff that goes up into the air doesn't it just keep going?
1:12.0	Like out into space, how this was news that it could be trapped and that that could create
1:17.9	problems long-term.
1:18.9	It was an entirely new conception in a way of how the world worked.
1:25.8	So I'm in high school and it's not as if I'm glued to the news the way I would be later
1:30.4	in life, so I actually don't remember this, but I was looking at some stuff the other
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