Mark Landler
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314 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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Of course.
And not just the fires, but successive summers of extreme heat, which have changed the harvest cycle.
They've also changed the nature of the grapes in a way that makes it harder to produce the kind of finely balanced wine that Bordeaux is so famous for.
So I think the people who live there recognize that the natural habitat that they live in
is no longer well-suited to the kind of climate that they now face.
This is just a much more hostile and unforgiving climate, and one for which they're not particularly well-suited, and one that will make it harder for them to make a living the way that they have for generations.
Well, as I'm sure Chico said earlier, Europe is in a particularly exposed position because it's warming faster than any other continent on the planet and because it is not suited historically to these kinds of dry, hot climates.
I think that Europe is facing a moment where people are really saying to themselves, we can't keep living the way we have.
It simply doesn't work.
in the world that we are now entering.
And this comes at a time when, at a European level, there's quite a lot of backsliding on the ambitious targets that Europe set for making its economies a net zero, that is, taking out as much greenhouse gases as they are putting into the atmosphere.
Climate policy has become controversial, particularly on the political right.
in France and other countries.
And so even as the evidence grows ever more dramatic of the changes to climate and the impacts of those changes, the political will to really confront climate change head on is actually weakened somewhat.
And that's a real paradox.
Well, there are a number of factors, the most important of which is the economy.
Economic growth has been sluggish in France and other European countries.
There's also a great deal of energy insecurity as a result of the war in Ukraine and more recently the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
And in that kind of anxious environment, having a very aggressive green policy, net zero targets, seems to many like a luxury that Europe can't afford right now.
Well, indeed.
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