It’s still spring in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but the world faces scorching hot temperatures. Summer heat has arrived early, setting records, claiming lives, and expected to get worse. Who’s responsible and what should be done about it?
In this episode:
– Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
– Jeff Goodell, Author of “The Heat Will Kill You First”
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan, with Ashish Malhotra, Tamara Khandaker and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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When you report deaths due to heat you also need to consider other increased deaths from heart attack, strokes and many other conditions plus the number of people hospitalised, miscarriages, birth complications. The impacts are far greater than the reported deaths.
Tell your children you love them, because we’ve destroyed their futures to make the EXXON shareholders billionaires.
how many tons of CO2 did we put into the air during the pandemic shutdown?
NO ONE IS SERIOUS
I burn fossil fuels going back and forth to my laborious factory job so that i can work a full day each week in order to pay into the general fund so the US can afford to produce, ship, and fuel missiles and i don't hear anyone talking about the carbon footprint from armed conflict. No I will not be trying to sacrifice anything more from my personal use of gasoline or electricity than I already do until we stop killing innocent people with weapons of mass destruction.
All of those "caring" people cited tolerate political systems which globally subsidize fossil fuel at three trillion $ / year. Enjoy the heat it's only gonna rise.
Civilizations are massive heat generators no matter how they are powered & infinite growth on a finite planet with finite resources is unsustainable. Taking this into consideration we are effed!
If you don't mention the global masking effect, you are not addressing the full complexity of what our global economic religion is responsible for.
Billioners… Greedy humans destroying everything
Last year's heat was a warning from the earth.
When it gets a little hot, we use coolers all at once, which uses even more electricity and increases CO2 emissions.
As a Japanese person who has experienced this, I would like to suggest that you use wind to exhaust heat as much as possible.
The effect is obvious, as I have actually been able to reduce my electricity bill in just the past few years.
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And tell this to your acquaintances who still come to Japan on jet planes for sightseeing.
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Just have more babies 👶 and everything will be fine!🎊
Bottom line is we deserve everything that’s coming!!!
Corporations our Responsible for the Emissions and Green House gases….not me 🍀
Fossil fuel emmissions will decline substantially after several billion humans die because of the heat.
I recently come across this podcast and find it appealing.
Carbon tax everyone, trudeau said so,,it will help lots😅
Cimate change has become a weapon : each country emits as much as possible of CO2, hoping that its ennemies will suffer from it more than themselves….
Dont drive, dont fly, turn off your cell phone.
I bet the radar is putting off heat in the air and making it hotter than normal. Understand bouncing signals off the moisture like a microwave.
I feel sad for the animals terrible what human do 😅
Is Anyone Taking To Account Nuclear Wastes Impact Here? It's Too Hot To Believe Its Natural.
Involuntary Mass Murder charges could be pending in UN Court?
Stop taking airplane flights, stop unnecessary driving. Stop eating meat. Stop buying plastic, single use items like water in a plastic bottles (so stupid!), rip out the lawn and plant a garden. How about an individual carbon ration: do you need to go to the grocer for dinner? Too bad, you spent your carbon ration on that new blouse- – eat that. WE are individually responsible.
The ones who caused this should pay to keep their victims alive. If a labourer in India has to work in the sun and die while billionaires live in luxury, the governments of the world are just tools for the rich to oppress the poor. Democracy does not exist.😢
Its been great to know you folks!..👍
GLOBAL CLIMATE CONTROL NOW:
Pretending individual behaviour changes can make a difference is akin to putting the onus on the smoker rather than the tobacco industry, The true solution lies in regulatory/political change on the global level and treating the fossil fuel companies like we did the tobacco companies. Unfortunately, we live in a time when both politicians and regulators, local and global, are either captured or neutered by industries and governments, that either act in collusion or are so large as to defy any attempt at regulation. Add to this short election cycles, massive disinformation and consumerism supercharged by social media and you have an interminable status quo that will lead to a terrifying near future.
Perhaps always a red herring, the time for Net Zero has past . Humanity must enter the age of Global Climate Control as quickly as possible. Perhaps a global manhattan project staffed with our best minds, with the goal of complete climate control. Remember that human activity is not the only thing that can drastically change our climate – humanity and countless species are doomed anyway if we do not learn to control it both on a local and global level, so we must focus all of our effort, our talent, our potential brilliance as a global society on that one goal, Global Climate Control.
As a species we stand at the cusp of extinction, and this can either become our finest moment or we fade into nothing.
Israel has been heating the Earth incredibly fast with their bombs and has caused the Earth to rise dramatically. If you look at a heat graph over Gaza and all around Israel they have tremendously heated the Earth 🌎
The 1% of the world (billionaires) are the problem, and they couldn't care less about what they are doing.