Aug 22 • 52M

The (Changing) Prospects for the Climate (Robert Wright & David Wallace-Wells)

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Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.
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0:05 Has David’s grim outlook on the climate changed?
9:47 How “global warming” became “climate change”
13:10 What wilder wildfires signal about the environment
24:34 Which climate measures are the surest bet?
31:23 Climate science’s time-scale problem
38:35 The pros and cons of carbon capture
47:52 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David Wallace-Wells (The New York Times, The Uninhabitable Earth). Recorded August 17, 2023.

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