Speaking of Climate Change….

Here’s a podcast of the NPR show Ideasphere, in which host Guy Rathbun speaks with environmental activist Andrew Boyd, author of the recent book I Want a Better Catastrophe.  Fabulous discussion, highly recommended.

Boyd is terrifically well informed about climate change and what must be done to mitigate it. He’s also quite the comedian–an unlikely combination to be sure.

I guess I should have been clued in by the kidding on the level title of the book.  Does anyone want a catastrophe?

Its concept, of course, is that some level of catastrophe is already baked into our future, and that at this point our descendants are incapable of avoiding great suffering as the result of our selfishness.  But is the driver really selfishness, or our blind and ignorant acceptance of the fossil fuels industry’s insistence, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars of public relations, that global warming is a liberal, anti-capitalist hoax?

It’s a 30-minute experience you won’t regret.