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Heat of the Moment: From Oil Worker to Climate Activist

Heat of the Moment: From Oil Worker to Climate Activist

FromAnd Now The Hard Part


Heat of the Moment: From Oil Worker to Climate Activist

FromAnd Now The Hard Part

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Nov 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We introduce the second season of Heat of the Moment, a podcast that, like And Now The Hard Part, tells stories from the front lines of one of the world's biggest challenges: the climate crisis.On this episode of Heat of the Moment, we meet former oil worker Allen Hubbard. Hubbard spent most of his professional career as a geologist working on oil rigs in Louisiana trying to calculate the best spots to drill. Since leaving the industry Hubbard began learning more about the climate crisis from people like Al Gore and decided he needed to do a complete 180. Now in his 80s, Hubbard has made it his duty to speak out and try to motivate people to curb their consumption of fossil fuels.We want to hear from you! To fill out our 2021 listener survey, go to survey.fan/foreignpolicy.com Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Nov 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (27)

The world is a particularly confusing and daunting place these days: Russian bots, North Korean nukes, trade wars and climate emergencies. To understand it better, Foreign Policy and the Brookings Institution are teaming up for an 8-part podcast series. On each episode, host Jonathan Tepperman and a guest from Brookings discuss one of the world’s most vexing problems and trace its origins. And then, the hard part: Tepperman asks the guest to focus on plausible, actionable ways forward. Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Policy’s editor in chief, hosts the podcast. The guests are some of the smartest and most experienced analysts around—all scholars from the Brookings Institution, including former government and intelligence officials. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.