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Moral Failure and Deadly Negligence (with Sara Pascoe and Matt Winning)

Moral Failure and Deadly Negligence (with Sara Pascoe and Matt Winning)

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Armando and Sara Pascoe are joined by Dr Matt Winning to discuss the language around COP.

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António Guterres has said that missing the 1.5 degree climate
target is "a moral failure and deadly negligence". Is he right?

Dr Matt Winning joins Sara Pascoe and Armando to discuss the
language around climate change. Is it proportionately alarmist,
or does it just scare us? Are we numb to the jaw-dropping
headlines?

Matt has some ideas of how to communicate these complex ideas
more succinctly, and tell us of the days spend at COP agonising
over whether 'urges' or 'suggests' makes it into an agreement. We
also look at how language has been used to put the onus on us,
rather than corporations, for waste and pollution, and a Swedish
word that should make its way into Keir Starmer's vocabulary.

Listen to Strong Message Here every Thursday at 9.45am on Radio 4
and then head straight to BBC Sounds for an extended episode.

Have you stumbled upon any perplexing political phrases you need
Armando to decode? Email them to us at
strongmessagehere@bbc.co.uk

Sound Editing by Chris Maclean Production Coordinator - Jodie
Charman Executive Producer - Pete Strauss

Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios production for Radio
4. An EcoAudio Certified Production.