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IMBW Audio: What the Hell Was I Thinking: What "Don't Look Up" Didn't Say But Maybe Should Have
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IMBW Audio: What the Hell Was I Thinking: What "Don't Look Up" Didn't Say But Maybe Should Have

Plus: The French people rise up to demand a moderate reshuffling of roles

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I didn’t know what image to pair with this episode — since it’s about climate change, the obvious thing would be smokestacks belching out pollution or a stock photo of the planet on fire or something. But that’s boring, so here’s a picture of a bell pepper with googly eyes instead.

In this episode, I mention these two charts:

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2016
Sources: International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook, 2019; International Energy Agency CO2 Highlights, 2019; USEPA International Non-CO2 Projections, 2012; as compiled by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

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