35: Climate talk with Patrick Galey--How bad is bad and how green is France?

If you’ve been reading the news or simply living as a human on earth, you’re aware of our world’s greatest crisis: the climate. The evidence is undeniable, we’re destroying our planet and not acting fast enough, if In the right ways at all, to slow its demise. Joining me to dig into the climate calamity and talk about how France measures up is Patrick Galey, the Global Science and Environment correspondant for the AFP news agency.

Mentioned in this episode + Additional reading

Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickgaley

What can we do to save nature? https://twitter.com/patrickgaley/status/1125376094473998336

UN Report Shows Nature at Death's Door https://news.yahoo.com/lost-world-un-report-shows-nature-deaths-door-151119912.html

Scientists Warn of climate 'time bomb' for world's groundwater https://phys.org/news/2019-01-scientists-climate-world-groundwater.html

Fuel subsidies defy green trend amid rising climate alarm https://news.yahoo.com/fuel-subsidies-defy-green-trend-amid-rising-climate-160743139.html;_ylt=AwrC1jEM3t5cDGkA_hHQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTEyY2tpNnJrBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjc3MTFfMQRzZWMDc3I-

Save Nature to Save Ourselves https://news.yahoo.com/million-species-risk-extinction-one-them-085309131.html

Remote island beach plastics point to greater waste problem https://news.yahoo.com/remote-island-beach-plastics-point-greater-waste-problem-131013676.html

An explainer on fossil fuels https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/how-much-does-world-subsidize-oil-coal-and-gas/589000/