Eugene: Is it too late? It can't be. I'm convinced that the human condition will block any meaningful change at scale. We have to do thisand and we can, i'll give you one more example. The promise of deep ceo thermal bbetween five and 12 miles below the surface of the earth,. There's an almost infinite source of heat of about a thousand degrees fahrenheit. So things like that hold enormous promise, though it's not too late. What we got to do? You know, we can't just know about em.
Author and environmental journalist Eugene Linden's new book, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change from 1979 to the Present, lays out how successive US governments managed to delay action on climate change when they should have been raising the alarm. It also looks at why the climate emergency will have a big impact on the global economy and why China and India, which could have taken a lead on renewables, double downed on coal to fuel their industrialisation in the 1990s. Our host for the podcast is the economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.
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