Chris Hayes starts the podcast with a tweet he came across. It said that Greece is in a crisis because of the wildfires and he said that people even jumped in the ocean trying to save themselves. Another journalist saw the tweet and accused media of not informing the public on TV. Hayes makes a statement that climate change isn’t something people can see and rather than denying global warming, we should decrease the release of carbon, collectively. There have been a lot of plane crashes in the past and we made a good job in clearing the air. Ever since then, statistically, planes rarely get into accidents.

Andrew Revkin comes on to speak about his past experiences with journalism and interviews. This is the first time he has sat down with a psychologist and a scientist. He was told that information doesn’t really matter, what matters is cultural cognition. If it doesn’t inconvenience people, they won’t try to make a difference. A great example to this is energy. Americans have air conditioning in every room and I can say for a fact that Europeans don’t rely on it, though they do have heaters at the very least.

Hayes responds with a theory of why people do not feel motivated to keep working on saving the Earth and uses an elevator button as an example. It lights up to indicate that you’ve successfully pressed the button. With climate change there isn’t any progress that can be seen immediately so the population loses hope. As more and more wildfires come about, we need to act faster. Stated by scientists and journalists, there’s no way we can solve this, but we can recover.

Meyer and Atkin start off with introducing the New York Times article “Losing Earth”. Atkin mentions Meyer, quotes, and says that The Atlantic is arguing that a decade of an issue won’t advocate and decide who’s to blame. Meyer goes on to state that the Republicans of every presidential election are to blame for turning down treaties for climate change. There was a mention that Rich made in his article; the fossil fuel industry was unaffiliated with this issue. ExxonMobil more so. They were in denial of global warming which led to their negligent act. Atkin agreed with Rich on both accounts. Neither the Republicans nor the industry are to fully blame. It’s just human nature, we can’t stop what we are. Atkin finishes off with praising Rich and his journalism about an on going issue. Though it’s up for debate, “Losing Earth” isn’t the whole story, according to Atkin.

The biggest turning point in the story was the discovery that the ozone layer has a hole. People immediately reacted and needed answers as to how we can fix this issue. I was surprised at the initial speculation of why global warming was happening. This story could easily be a documentary on History Channel. I like the way the epilogue starts with talking about graduate students being asked what is the biggest breakthrough in climate physics since 1979. Though, it was a trick question, Nathaniel Rich said it was just a refinement. It was stated that this given crisis would panic people but not to the point where they’d try to solve it. As humans we care and worry but only a small amount of us would help. In the 70s, people didn’t have the equipment to stop climate change. This Is the main reason why we can’t blame the past for the inevitable. It was beautifully concluded that we brought this upon us and that maybe human nature will push us through. He continued to state that it is also human nature to hope.

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