War and peace-building on a heating planet
Zero: The Climate Race
Bloomberg
4.7 • 219 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Weather patterns have always had an impact on people and civilizations. Historians argue that El Niño may have contributed to the French Revolution, and climate variability could have led to weakening the Ottoman Empire. But as anthropogenic emissions make the planet hotter, faster, Berghof Foundation Executive Director Andrew Gilmour says the risk of conflict is growing. In the 30 years he spent working with the United Nations, Gilmour repeatedly saw how competition over resources such as land and water led to conflict, but he also sees opportunities for aligning peace-building with climate solutions. “The common solutions could be, for example, a solar powered irrigation scheme,” Gilmour tells Akshat Rathi. “It could be joint management of a wildlife reserve, it could be a desalination project.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. This week, war on a heating planet. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, Aethy. It's been six months you've been producing zero. What's your |
| 0:23.5 | experience being like? When I tell people about this job, I say this is a show about climate change |
| 0:28.2 | and emissions, but I think I very quickly start talking about all the other topics that this show |
| 0:34.6 | ends up touching. So we've done just in the last couple weeks alone, |
| 0:38.5 | shows about refrigeration and talked about tomatoes. |
| 0:41.3 | We've talked about health policy. |
| 0:43.0 | We've talked about shark skins. |
| 0:44.9 | Shark skins. |
| 0:45.4 | Shark skins. |
| 0:45.7 | And kelp farms and electric transformers. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.7 | So there's a wide range. |
| 0:51.9 | And that I think is one of the things that has kept this job really interesting. |
| 0:57.8 | Obviously, one thing we return to a lot is politics. |
| 1:01.8 | Well, also because this has been such an election year, and I think we will talk about politics a lot more. |
| 1:08.5 | And this week's episode feels particularly timely off the news we've been reading about from |
| 1:13.4 | Germany, where the government has instituted new expanded border patrols after coming |
| 1:18.9 | under a lot of pressure to control immigration. |
| 1:22.0 | And it's only weeks after there was a knife attack where a Syrian man who had been denied asylum went on a stabbing spree. |
| 1:29.4 | We mentioned all this because today's guest is Andrew Gilmer. |
| 1:33.3 | He's the executive director of the Berghoff Foundation based in Berlin. |
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