Episode 73

[FOCUS] First Myth About Climate Change

Episode Summary:  This episode is an excerpt from a past episode with Inma and Jemm discussing the first myth about climate change

Having contributed to many areas of the Carbon Almanac, Jenn and Imma came together to discuss a number of different environmental issues.

In this episode, Inma talks about how one of the myths is that climate change is nothing new because the climate is always changing. The real myth is that it is not a problem but how many record-breaking years of rising temperature will it take to change this view? 

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Jenn Swanson and Inma Lopez

From Langley in British Columbia, Canada, Jenn is a Minister, Coach, Writer and Community Connector, helping people help themselves. 

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Transcript
JENN:

The first myth?

JENN:

How many myths are there?

INMA:

Well, at least as far as I know in the Caldwell Almanack

INMA:

they are talking about 10 myths.

JENN:

Wow.

JENN:

That's a lot of myths.

JENN:

Okay.

JENN:

What's the first myth,

INMA:

the first myth, which is interesting.

INMA:

Climate change is nothing new.

INMA:

The climate is always changing.

JENN:

That's true.

INMA:

It's true.

INMA:

I said, why is it, why is that in MIS what do you think?

JENN:

Uh, that's true, but my understanding is that it's changing

JENN:

a lot faster than it used to.

INMA:

That's where that meat comes from.

INMA:

Because for some people I don't see that is happening much often, nowadays.

INMA:

Five years ago.

INMA:

I heard many people saying, oh no, no, no.

INMA:

That is a myth.

INMA:

That is a problem.

INMA:

Climate has OMB changing is not a problem.

INMA:

That's the meat.

INMA:

The meat is that is not a problem.

JENN:

Wow.

JENN:

I read that 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have taken place since 2001.

INMA:

Yeah.

INMA:

So that's, that's really fast.

INMA:

And, um, For, for planet to take in all those changes and be able to

INMA:

continue that is much faster than organically, both have happened.

INMA:

So it's us,

JENN:

it's us.

INMA:

It's us.

JENN:

It's the human species and all the things that we're doing.

JENN:

Oh my goodness.

JENN:

So, so that's a myth.

JENN:

And how do we change that myth in, in the minds of people?

INMA:

Well, the most of it is coming from fuel emissions and gas and carbon

INMA:

coal oil, gas, all that is a big, big, big, big part of those fast changes.

INMA:

So what can we do?

INMA:

I think there's probably multiple ways of action personally.

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