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2050: Degrees of Change CBC Discover & Learn
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4.7 • 153 Ratings
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CBC Meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe guides a journey to our future in a CBC Vancouver original podcast that explores how our world and lives will adapt to climate change within a few decades.
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2050 presents What On Earth: “Can Earth Day be badass again?”
The climate is changing. So are we. On What On Earth, you’ll explore a world of solutions with host Laura Lynch and our team of journalists. In 1970, 20 million people showed up to fight for the environment on the first Earth Day. More than five decades later, is it time for this much tamer global event to return to its radical roots?
OG organizer Denis Hayes recounts how – amidst other counterculture movements at the time – his team persuaded roughly one in ten Americans to take to the streets. As he approaches 80, Denis offers his singular piece of advice to the next generation of climate leaders. Then, environmental warriors Maria Blancas and Axcelle Campana share ideas on what a reinspired Earth Day could look like – including making it a public holiday.
More episodes of What On Earth are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/uIkc33FT
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Episode 7: A New Future
In this bonus episode taped in front of a live audience at CBC Vancouver we ask "What would it take for you to change for climate change?". Johanna Wagstaffe hosts a panel of environmental experts to tell us what kind of change is meaningful enough to alter the path as we head towards the year 2050. Hear why it's not too late to rewrite our future.
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Episode 1 - B.C. in 2050
Meteorologists call British Columbia 'the land of a billion micro climates.' By 2050, the average temperature in BC will have risen by 2.5 C. But that doesn't mean everything will just get hotter. We explore how BC's climate will change in just 30 years.
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Episode 2 - Snow and Ice
Without snow, everything changes. In this episode, we reveal the downstream effects of record-low snow packs, melting glaciers and rising sea levels in British Columbia.
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Episode 3 - Agriculture
What do rising temperatures, changing rain patterns and shifting seasons mean for farmers? We learn about the challenges, as well as opportunities, facing producers.
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Episode 4 - Cities
Vancouver says it will run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. We look at how climate change will re-shape our cities, and ask if we're doing enough to mitigate its effects on our environment as well as our society.
Customer Reviews
Listening again after 3 years
It sounds so funny to hear that back in 2015, Vancouver thought it would be the Greenest City in the World by 2020!!
Singapore has long since surpassed most other world cities and had a lot more ‘green’ infrastructure in place before the idea of “Greenest City” ever occurred to anyone.
But you have to think that if a city like Vancouver can’t do it, how many cities are there that actually can?
This series is very interesting and very well put together. It’s understandable that widespread enthusiasm for the potential solutions would be the expected public response and the dominant tone of the podcast reflects this.
Some real hope about the adaptations that can be made to help us cope with the coming storms is definitely offered.
But we’ve just come out of a 4 year era of anti-progress and blatant dishonesty in a country which was once considered a world beacon or progress: the United States of America. It has become apparent that disinformation can turn people against making the changes that will allow humanity to adapt to the looming changes. Now we have a lingering pandemic that is putting many necessary changes on hold.
Many questions are left unanswered in this podcast; unresolved challenges aren’t (and can’t be) mentioned, and unwanted conclusions are left out.
Anyone else notice the fake religious-like reviews?
CBC is actively funding this nonsense with leveraged taxpayer money, snd then has the audacity to create fake reviews too. 1984 much?
Making climate change realistic
I loved this....I knew climate change was happening and I continue to go out of my to make small personal adjustments, but the way this was presented....very realistic. I loved when the little girl was woken up and presented with how her day would be laid out and all the changes related to climate...soccer practice being delayed, the requirement for her to wear a face mask....was just awesome!
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