In some polls, about 25 percent of Americans deny climate change is happening at all. Others know they should care, but want to be spared the details and believe they can’t do anything to affect the outcome anyway. Dennis Dimick, National Geographic magazine's Executive Editor, Environment, says, “These are the people that National Geographic thought about every day in putting together November’s...magazine...devoted to exploring climate change and timed to coincide with the global climate conference in Paris.” The special Climate Change edition is organized into three categories: How do we know it’s happening? How to fix it? and How to Live With It?
On Wednesday’s AU we’ll look at Stanford professor Mark Jacobson’s state-by-state road map outlining how the U.S. could achieve carbon free energy by 2050 and we’ll examine what Utah’s energy mix would look like with 100% renewable energy. We’ll talk with Dennis Dimick, and contributing writer & Senior Environment Editor Robert Kunzig, about how Germany is trying to kick its nuclear and fossil fuel dependency; explore practical guides on what you, as an individual, can do to make a difference; and learn how people in Greenland and the Pacific Island nation of Kiribati are adapting.
