i think the case is really about time. We've heard a lot over the last few years about this time line to cut our omissions in half by 20 30. I'm everybody's now saying that we're going to deliver that amount of money. But, you know, it's another helpful thing about calculating those numbers. And spending 50 trillion dollars over 200 years really is just a very different scale of spend in than talking about spending 50 trillion in a decade. No more empty promises,. no more empty summits, no more empty conferences. It's time for the polluters to pay. The show today includes a time the dream chapero helima shah, victoria chamber
While world leaders have descended on Glasgow to try to figure out how to slow emissions in the future, New York magazine’s David Wallace-Wells argues rich countries like the United States should also atone for their polluting past.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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