Introducing COAL+ICE Podcast

We're all living with climate change,  but what can we do about it?  Join host Mary Kay Magistad, for global conversations on what's happening with climate change around the world, and what's being done to bend the curve.  This biweekly Asia Society podcast starts in late January 2022. 

Transcript

Mary Kay Magistad (MKM): We are all living with climate change.

Voices:
#1: “Africa is already experiencing these impacts.”

#2: “We’re seeing people just drown in the middle of the city in a subway, because of this unprecedented heavy rain.”

#3: “There are so many forest fires that parts of the Amazon are becoming a source of carbon emissions rather than a sink.  It’s becoming part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.”

MKM: And this is a crucial moment – to better understand what’s happening, and how to move in a better direction.

Voice:  “You know, we’re beyond the point of debating the science. We’re beyond the time of awareness. We are in the period of action.  We need action.”

MKM: We’re here to help, with a podcast that brings you global voices about what’s being done, and what to do, about the biggest global challenge of our time. 

Orville Schell (OS):  “What is causing climate change, how the carbon arc works from coal mine to factory to atmosphere, mountain to glacier to river to water, oceans, hurricanes, and all the rest of it.” 

MKM: I’m Mary Kay Magistad, your host on Asia Society’s COAL+ICE podcast. Over six episodes, you’ll hear how people around the world are experiencing climate change, responding to it, and finding ways to bend the curve – so we and future generations can all enjoy a livable planet.

OS: “We are completely capable of solving this problem.  The science is there. The understanding is there. The remedies are there. And we know exactly what to do. It’s like dance footprints on the floor.  You just put your feet in them, and you learn how to waltz.”

MKM: That’s Orville Schell.  He heads Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations. And  he helped create the COAL+ICE photo exhibition that’s traveled the world over the past decade with photos of coal miners and melting Himalayan glaciers – a stark meditation on the causes and effects of climate change, and a call to action: 

 Voices: 

#1: “We need the public and the society to be on board with those ambitious targets and goals, to actually move forward to achieving them.”

#2:  “Even just seeing how the youth movement has really come to the party, young people who are so conscious of the threats of climate change.  Just hoping that that’s going to manifest into future adults who really make better decisions for the planet.”

#3: “We are actors.  We’re not just passive observers. We can do something. I think this is the fight of our age, and a fight worth taking part in.” 

MKM: Start by checking out coalandice.org.  Come, if you can, to the live COAL+ICE photo exhibition at the Kennedy Center, in Washington DC, March 15th to April 22nd.  And subscribe to the COAL+ICE podcast.