After a few upbeat weeks on political intrigue in Chongqing, Sinica is back this week with another depressing show about the various ways China is killing us all. This week our conversation turns to cadmium-laced rice, endangered species, and the pollution of the food supply in a conversation with writer and broadcaster Isabel Hilton, founder of chinadialogue, and Jonathan
From Ivy League to west-Cork solitude, how American Dan Hummel shunned US materialism to live on Irish soil. “I’ve always been into locations. Places have guided my life more than people, family, or friends,” Dan Hummel’s American accent, still strong, is as laid-back as the man.
After the collapse of international climate change talks in Copenhagen in 2009, Mark Lynas’ devastating article, published in the Guardian, laid the blame squarely at China’s feet, accusing the Chinese government of deliberately scuttling American-led efforts to secure an international agreement on climate change.
In this first episode of the COAL+ICE podcast, top climate journalists talk about what these choices look like in China, South Africa and Brazil and what's being done, and needs to be done, to bend the curve on climate change.
In this first episode of the COAL+ICE podcast, top climate journalists talk about what these choices look like in China, South Africa and Brazil and what's being done, and needs to be done, to bend the curve on climate change.