We Broke the Planet. Now What?

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🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We’ve grown accustomed to viewing climate change as an enemy we must urgently defeat. But is that the right metaphor for the greatest existential problem of our time? This week, we consider how to reframe the way we think about life on a changing planet. If you like our work, please consider supporting it! See how you can help at support.hiddenbrain.org. And to learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter atnews.hiddenbrain.org.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:05.4	Seemingly every other month, we hear about the latest example of a thousand year flood,
0:10.5	a hundred year hurricane, the once in a lifetime forest fire.
0:16.6	Oh my God, I'm a God, I'm a God, I'm a God. The road is on fire.
0:20.6	Fire in Oregon, just one of 70 wildfires raging across 12 states.
0:24.8	Portland, 116 degrees, that is a new well-timed record.
0:28.4	I mean, we've never seen anything like this in the Pacific Northwest.
0:31.5	Historic and catastrophic flooding in Western Europe with at least 199 people killed
0:36.3	and hundreds more still missing after violence.
0:39.1	Experts have attributed the extreme weather to climate change.
0:42.2	The impact of climate change, no one is immune from climate change.
0:51.0	Whenever a climate-related disaster strikes, policy makers and environmentalists
0:56.2	issue a call to arms.
0:58.4	Here's activist Greta Tunberg.
1:00.9	Right here, right now, is where we draw the line. The world is waking up and change is coming
1:08.8	whether you like it or not.
1:11.6	And here is former vice president Al Gore.
1:14.8	This is our generations' life or death battle.
1:19.4	Think back through the histories of the cities represented here in the nations they are
1:25.1	found in times in the past where heroism made the difference in a crucial battle that
1:33.7	defined history.
1:35.0	The whole world is facing just those circumstances right now.
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