60. N8 Take: Everything on Fire Everywhere (But we still have books)

The climate crisis came into full view this summer as countries across Europe experienced record-high temperatures in July. In the UK, a train track caught on fire, and an airport runway melted. In France, they called it a “heat apocalypse.” But while Europe is trying to deal with 40-47 degree celsius weather, we need to remember that things have been bad for a long time now. In 2016, parts of India reached 51C degrees celsius. The climate crisis affects everyone on this planet, but why do we pay attention only to some countries, and not others? Most of our infrastructures just weren’t built for this new climate, and the climate policy sphere, we refer to this as adaptation. Adaptation is where countries, companies, institutions adapt to new levels of warming from our warming planet. We need to ask some important questions as well. How long will these events last? Where will they be? And what do these countries need to do or need to survive them? Today, N8 has a list of climate resources he recommends: Bloomberg Green Volts by David Roberts Carbon Brief Professor Jesse Jenkins at Princeton Professor Kuei-Tien Chou at the Risk Society and Policy Research Center in Taiwan And here’s more - National Geographic, Enric Sala Podcast Catalyst by Shayle Kann theconversation.com Yale Environment 360 And for your friends, colleagues, and families, here’s a digital library from the Waste Not Why Not team and our guests: This is Waste Not Why Not, a climate podcast from Ghost Island Media. Debuted on Earth Day in 2019, it's hosted by Nature N8 (Nate Maynard), a sustainability consultant working on energy, ocean and waste. Support us on Patreon:

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60. N8 Take: Everything on Fire Everywhere (But we still have books) is an episode from Waste Not Why Not by Ghost Island Media 鬼島之音.

This episode is 13:28 long.

This episode was published on Aug 17, 2022.

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