This week, our hosts each arrive with one specific issue they feel freshly outraged or optimistic about. Tom talks about how Earth Day 2024 will come to be known as the beginning of the end of the climate crisis. Christiana is outraged (and a tiny bit optimistic) about the plastics pandemic. And Paul gets fired up about investor and corporate transition plans - can he convince his co-hosts to ‘light the blue touch paper’ and ignite their own optimism?
Music comes from Cosmo Sheldrake with his song, “Soil”. Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. As part of the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live’s new initiative Sounds Right, Cosmo has shared this new track “Soil (feat. NATURE)”, a homage to the powerful transformative and generative capacities of subterranean ecosystems. Money raised will go towards conservation projects around the world.
NOTES AND RESOURCES
The Babies vs Plastics Report
23 - 29 April 2024 in Canada - The Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
More on Earth Day 2024
The IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2023 on how it expects CO2 emissions to peak “in the mid-2020s”
First Colour Photograph of the Earth from space
The danger of the very serious person By Pilita Clark in the Financial Times
PAUL’S BOOK TIPS
The Corporation that Changed the World by Nick Robins
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83. How Europe is Racing to Zero with Frans Timmermans and Nigel Topping
82. The Paris Effect with Laurence Tubiana
81. Climate Justice and Racial Justice with David Lammy
80. The Future of Fuels
79. Everything Is Possible with Sanda Ojiambo
78. Adrenaline, Stamina and Joy with Xiye Bastida
77. U.S. Election Special: A New Optimism with Ben Rhodes and Todd Stern
76. Decision Time 2020 with John Podesta
75. Optimism and Earthshots with Prince William
74. The Future of Flight
73. Prelude to TED Countdown with Chris Anderson and Lindsay Levin
72. No Room for Being Cynical with Ted Danson
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71. We Can Only Face the Future if We Do it Together with Achim Steiner
70. BP's Road to Rebuilding Trust with CEO Bernard Looney
69. Climate Action is a Team Sport with Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi
68. Faith, Science and the Climate Crisis with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
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