Moral Failure and Deadly Negligence (with Sara Pascoe and Matt Winning)
Episode description
António Guterres has said that missing the 1.5 degree climate target is "a moral failure and deadly negligence". Is he right?
Dr Matt Winning joins Sara Pascoe and Armando to discuss the language around climate change. Is it proportionately alarmist, or does it just scare us? Are we numb to the jaw-dropping headlines?
Matt has some ideas of how to communicate these complex ideas more succinctly, and tell us of the days spend at COP agonising over whether 'urges' or 'suggests' makes it into an agreement. We also look at how language has been used to put the onus on us, rather than corporations, for waste and pollution, and a Swedish word that should make its way into Keir Starmer's vocabulary.
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Sound Editing by Chris Maclean Production Coordinator - Jodie Charman Executive Producer - Pete Strauss
Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios production for Radio 4. An EcoAudio Certified Production.