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On the heels of COP26, Jesse heads back to school as he and his new senior producer, Sarah Lawrynuik, duke it out over whether climate change is either a) boring or b) the most exciting story ever told. Sarah takes Jesse through the psychological factors at play, the history, the politics and the morality of the climate crisis, while making her case for the latter. Will Canadaland move forward with stories about climate change? Listen to find out.
Further reading:
- Washington Post: At COP26, nations speed climate action but leave world still headed for dangerous warming
- Per Espen Stoknes's book What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
- Katharine Hayhoe's book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
- Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow
- Naomi Oreskes' book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
- Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore et al. peer reviewed paper Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change
- Carbon Brief breaks down the Nine key moments that changed China's mind about climate change
- Stephen Gardiner's book A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
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