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“I used to conduct tours for schoolkids in Massachusetts,” a former coal-plant mechanic says in the first episode of Gimlet’s new podcast “How to Save a Planet.” “I’d ask them, ‘Who made their breakfast with coal today?,’ and they’d all say, ‘Ugh, not me!’ But, in fact, they all had.” Moments like this make the series, companionably hosted by the marine biologist and policy expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Gimlet’s co-founder Alex Blumberg, not just palatable but rather fun. Via stories, policy, and science, each episode illuminates some aspect of the climate-crisis landscape—renewable energy, the Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg’s movement, the role of the American President—and provides encouraging takeaways. As the first episode ends, the coal-plant mechanic has learned to love wind power, and Blumberg imagines him leading a turbine tour: “Did you have the wind for breakfast this morning?”

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