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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: The World Is on Fire. Here’s a Realistic Plan to Save Humanity.
Description: The world is on fire. In southern Europe, wildfires are streaking from Portugal to Greece. In the U.K., airport runways melted as temperatures exceeded 103 degrees for the first time on record. In the U.S. this week, about one in five Americans are living in a place that will be even hotter than the U.K.’s historic mark. And what is our government doing about it? Pretty close to nothing.But if you look behind these headlines, there’s something very interesting happening. In the past decade, the price of solar electricity has declined by 90 perc...