Sasha Pfeiffer
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201 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Now to today's show.
It's Consider This, where every day we go deep on one big news story.
Today, is climate adaptation enough?
Firefighters are battling wildfires across large swaths of Europe.
That's the latest weather event on a continent that has experienced a lot of heat this summer.
Scientists say that's created conditions that make wildfires more likely.
For decades.
Consider this.
Wildfires in Europe have caused hundreds of thousands of people to move in the span of just a few days.
What happens when climate change becomes so disruptive that humans cannot adapt fast enough?
It's Consider This from NPR.
All this week, we've been reporting on the catastrophic wildfires happening in Western Europe, especially France and Spain and now Greece.
One line in the media coverage really stood out to me.
A European scientist said all this heat and all these fires are likely to only get worse in the future to the point, he said, that we will be, quote, passing the limits of adaptation.
I wondered what that looks like.
So we've called him to ask.
Johann Rockström is director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and he noted that 200-some years since the Industrial Revolution, the Earth has remained fairly resilient, but that is changing.
And what does that look like for humans?
If we reach these limits, what does it mean for people on Earth?
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