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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
Episode Guests
Show Notes
Mentioned on the Podcast
Bob’s Picks
Elizabeth Kolbert, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
Carla’s Picks
Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
Deborah’s Picks
Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch
Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Additional Books, Films, Podcasts, Shows and More Mentioned on the Podcast
Books
Russell Baker, Growing Up
Ron Chernow, Grant
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Roy Stewart, The Places In Between
Films
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
James Bridges, The China Syndrome
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Alex Garland, Civil War
Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday
Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields
Richard Linklater, Hit Man
Sidney Lumet, Network
Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men
Peter Weir, The Year of Living Dangerously
Podcasts
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Goalhanger
Jon Ronson, Things Fell Apart, BBC Radio 4
Television Shows
Jez Scharf, Bodkin
David Simon, The Wire
Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom
Other
France’s governance is at stake as it holds snap elections for its National Assembly, with the far-right National Rally looking to build on its success in the European Parliament elections; the United Kingdom (UK) has its own snap general elections with Keir Starmer and his Labour Party looking to end the fourteen-year rule of the Conservatives; Iran’s snap presidential elections could signal unity of regime hard-liners or glimmers of change; the European Union (EU) plans to impose provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles; and Ukraine strikes more than thirty Russian oil refineries.
A Russian court moves judicial proceedings for detained U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to Yekaterinburg for a closed-door espionage trial; the success of far-right parties in the European Parliament elections challenges the power of several incumbent European Union (EU) leaders; the Boeing Starliner "Calypso" spacecraft prepares to return from the International Space Station after delays; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves his war cabinet.
Ukraine pushes for wider international support and endorsement of its proposed peace process at Switzerland’s Ukraine peace summit; the UN Security Council deliberates how to assist Sudanese civilians and de-escalate the civil war; diplomatic pressure builds for a U.S.-backed cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip; and Russian ships arrive in Cuban waters for exercises.