"This American Life" Explores What Happens To Family And Friends When People "See The Light" And Become Insistently Evangelical About Their Consuming Devotion To Environmentalism

 

 

The End of the World as We Know It

What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.

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racia Lam

Alan: "Evangelical enthusiasm" about ANYTHING tends to become destructive, particularly to family relationships. 

As often happens, those who most need to hear this -- e.g., Trump cultists - won't listen.

Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION.

Prologue

Prologue

By

Ira Glass

So yes, climate change is real and most Americans believe that’s what we’re seeing around us right now. But there are people out there who look at the same evidence the rest of us do and take it to heart in a way most of us don’t. They have a wake-up moment. (5 minutes)

Act One

1.5 Degrees of Separation

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Aviva DeKornfeld

Producer Aviva DeKornfeld was interested in the toll that having a wakeup-moment could have on a family, and she heard about someone who had a moment like that over a decade ago. He tried to pull his family into activism too, and what unfolded was the most extreme example of things going badly in a family that Aviva heard of. (42 minutes)

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