Our Wild World

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing our civilization. Every one of us is responsible for emitting carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases. Our guest today is climate mitigation expert Rick Heede, author of the groundbreaking study, Carbon Majors. When looking at who’s responsible, we tend to point to individuals or countries, but here we have a different perspective – Corporations. A stunning two-thirds of all emissions have been traced to just 90 entities, such as Exxon Mobile and Chevron, who sell the products that result in these climate-changing emissions. Every gallon of gasoline we purchase from these corporations goes into these calculations. We will discuss how the Carbon Majors project might affect climate policy and what implications it might have for affecting the way we move forward with climate action- globally and, personally.