This week, our hosts each arrive with one specific issue they feel freshly outraged or optimistic about. Tom talks about how Earth Day 2024 will come to be known as the beginning of the end of the climate crisis. Christiana is outraged (and a tiny bit optimistic) about the plastics pandemic. And Paul gets fired up about investor and corporate transition plans - can he convince his co-hosts to \u2018light the blue touch paper\u2019 and ignite their own optimism?
Music comes from Cosmo Sheldrake with his song, \u201cSoil\u201d. Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist. As part of the Museum for the United Nations \u2013 UN Live\u2019s new initiative Sounds Right, Cosmo has shared this new track \u201cSoil (feat. NATURE)\u201d, a homage to the powerful transformative and generative capacities of subterranean ecosystems.\xa0 Money raised will go towards conservation projects around the world.
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NOTES AND RESOURCES
23 - 29 April 2024 in Canada - The Fourth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution
More on Earth Day 2024
The IEA\u2019s World Energy Outlook 2023 on how it expects CO2 emissions to peak \u201cin the mid-2020s\u201d
First Colour Photograph of the Earth from space
The danger of the very serious person By Pilita Clark in the Financial Times\xa0
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PAUL\u2019S BOOK TIPS
The Corporation that Changed the World by Nick Robins
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