2. 18 Months to Save the Human Race?

John Simpson's World Podcast

Have we reached a crisis point in the race to save the planet from doom? And do we only have, as Prince Charles said, 18 months to save the human race? Whilst we’ve all been busy talking about Brexit, Trump and China have we let it get too late to do something about the disastrous decline of the planet? On this episode John Simpson and his producer Lisa Francesca Nand talk big government initiatives, debauched heatwaves and question whether we really do have 18 months to save us all from disaster.

On this episode we cover:

Prince Charles saying we have 18 months to save the human race

Wondering if we actually have less than that

John’s crazy trip through Peru

Being too busy talking about Brexit, Trump and China that we have taken our eyes off the ball

We are facing absolute disaster

Being worried for his 13 year old son and a future of ‘horrible decline and despair’

Pressure needing to be put on our political leaders

Calls by the Green Party for greater initiatives

Big government initiatives needed

John Simpson being mistaken for David Attenborough (pisses John off) has David Attenborough had plastic surgery…? (no we don’t really think so…)

But does have bow-legs

The gathering of commonwealth leaders in the next 18 months

Trump being pathetic when it comes to climate change

‘Short-termism killing us’ in democracies

Being too late for ordinary methods

We need to demonstrate in the streets

Whether John will demonstrate in the streets

Would his BBC contract permit him to…?

Reporting on the 2003 Iraq protests

There ain’t going to be an afterwards if we don’t watch it

Justifying flying around the world

Stopping eating meat

Public opinion shifting

People travelling more than ever

John’s travelling

Flying going to have to cost more

Train travel being expensive and out of reach of most families

Travel spreading love – cheesy but true!

Temperatures rising in the UK

London going to have the temperature of Barcelona

British resorts becoming more attractive

The heat wave of 2018 being rather debauched

Is the message getting through

M&S food being covered in plastic

Morrison’s stopping plastic wrapping on fruit and veg

Change will happen for commercial reasons

Generations gone by being better than us

John thinking we have less than 18 months to save the planet

Sea levels rising

Cities like New York, LA, London will be increasingly under threat

Indonesia, Malaysia, part of the African literal will be a matter of life and death

John not being much of a Trump fan…

Not liking deliberate lying and falsehoods

Parallels between Germany in the 1930s

The general public sleepwalking into Nazi Germany