The Ideas in the Afternoon program on Monday, August 9 entitled ON TIME AND WATER: ANDRI MAGNASON featured Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker Andri Snaer Magnason who speaks to Nahlah Ayed about his response to the climate crisis, in his book entitled On Time and Water. Magnason embarked on the project at the insistence of a climate scientist who was dismayed at failures of public communication surrounding the latest research.
Concern about the climate crisis?
Ultimately, Magnason expresses a hope that his children's generation will look back upon the current society with pride and gratitude, because we will have succeeded in changing ourselves much more quickly and fundamentally than previous cultures did, and will thereby avoid the disastrous tipping points scientists have warned us about. The Tuesday, August 10, episode from CBC's The Current is a discussion with Simon Lewis, professor of global change science, University College London and Katherine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist and professor at Texas Tech University.
Political reaction on the day of release of the IPCC report
They assert that the focus must be on action.
Links
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/why-this-icelandic-writer-says-99-of-climate-talk-is-meaningless-white-noise-1.6060620
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