Rowan Hooper
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
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It actually does cool you down.
But I mean, to come back to this point about the disconnect between the deaths and climate change, we are at breaking point.
Like you were mentioning about the hospitals, the London Ambulance Service, one of those days in June, it had a record, the record number of life-threatening emergencies in a single day at 641 call-outs.
So the ambulance services stretched to breaking point.
A couple of hospitals declared critical incidents due to the heatwave and started only accepting emergencies.
So, yeah, we're already, you know, this is 1.5 degrees.
We're already at breaking point.
So I know you say, oh, it's all avoidable, but we've got to...
Got to actually make those changes.
As you say in your story, adaptation is not keeping pace with the risk that we're facing.
Well, on that note, we'll leave it there.
That's all for this episode.
Thanks to our guests, Michael LePage and Alec Loon.
And thanks to you for listening.
Goodbye.
I think this is the breakthrough of the year so far, Penny.
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It's a synthetic life form built from the ground up.
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They've called it spud cell.
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Spud cell.
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No, I think of it like if you think of a normal living cell as a jet airliner, a modern airliner, this spud cell is like the Wright brothers' first attempt at an airplane made of wood and cotton, cotton sheets that could just about get off the ground.
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