Audiobook Sample - My Desire For The Best Crisis
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Andrew Ivey. I came to political adulthood during the wave of protests against nuclear power and nuclear weapons that swarmed the western world through much of the eighties. Back then. It also felt like we were facing a doomsday scenario. The gravest threat was a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear plant or an escalating arms race triggering all out nuclear Armageddon apocalypse loomed but it was far from inevitable. In fact, just the opposite. It would require an accident or a war. There were things we could do and did do like phasing out nuclear power plants deescalating the arms race to help prevent the worst outcomes. But it was always possible that nothing too apocalyptic would happen. Not so with the climate crisis, given the carbon emissions path we are currently on. All we have to do is carry on just as we are and climate apocalypse will be upon us. It doesn't require an extraordinary accident, just a slow business as usual march into the future.