Accounting for Unintended Consequences of Going Green
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Listen to Heat of the Moment: The climate change crisis can feel so formidable, so daunting, that instead of mobilizing people to action, it engenders paralysis. What could we mortals possibly do to prevent the calamity? A fair bit, it turns out. On Heat of the Moment, a 12-part podcast by FP Studios, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds, we focus on ordinary people across the globe who have found ways to fight back.
How getting to net-zero carbon emissions actually creates more choice.
Today, we explore the unintended consequences of going green. In the first part of the episode, we head to Bolivia, where Amy Booth reports on the country’s nascent lithium mining and electric car industries and La Paz’s goals of expanding affordability and accessibility to electric vehicles. Booth talks to both locals and those involved with this transformation to see how the overall green plans for Bolivia are being balanced with the needs of individual communities.
Then host John Sutter speaks with Melissa Lott, the director of research at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. She talks about how the emergence of electric vehicles and getting to net-zero carbon emissions are really all about giving us more choices as we transition to greener ways of doing things.
About Heat of the Moment: The climate change crisis can feel so formidable, so daunting, that instead of mobilizing people to action, it engenders paralysis. What could we mortals possibly do to prevent the calamity? A fair bit, it turns out. On Heat of the Moment, a 10-part podcast by FP Studios, in partnership with the Climate Investment Funds, we focus on ordinary people across the globe who have found ways to fight back. Hosted by CNN contributor John D. Sutter, Heat of the Moment tells the stories of the people on the front lines of the fight against climate change. See All Episodes
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