Jonathan Porritt rates the UK's climate change record
This week's guest is writer and eco-warrior Jonathon Porritt. As the founding director of the sustainable development NGO, Forum for the Future, and, until this month, chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, when Porritt speaks about global warming people listen. The former director of Friends of the Earth and trustee of WWF came into the pod to fill in the British government's scorecard on tackling climate change. The astronomer Carl Sagan was a prolific scientist, pioneering the study of exobiology and astrochemistry and promoting the search for extraterrestrial life. One of his biggest achievements was Cosmos, a 13-part science documentary series first aired in the US in 1980. In it, he took viewers on a journey around the universe describing everything from atoms to galaxies and set a gold standard for science on television. Alok Jha speaks to Sagan's widow Anne Bruyan, who was also one of the writers on...
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