Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (June 4, 2021)

We cannot legislate and spend our way out of catastrophic global warming; Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet; An interview with Arundhati Roy; Al Gore on the Climate Crisis

1. Read: We cannot legislate and spend our way out of catastrophic global warming. [via Commune]

2. Read: The Stubborn Rice Breeder Helped End Hunger in China. An obituary of the remarkable Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping who died on May 22. China’s rice crop had risen from 57m tonnes in 1950 to 195m in 2017; A fifth of all rice grown globally now comes from hybrids that were his.[via WSJ]

3. An interview with Arundhati Roy: The Art of Fiction [via Paris Review]

4. Listen: Is The Earth Cooling Down [via Geology Bites]

5. Listen: Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet. Wald argues the modern toilet system is in desperate need of a redesign. [via 99% Invisible]

6. Watch: How The $1 Trillion Market For ‘Green’ Bonds Is Changing Wall Street

7. Watch: Al Gore speaks about "Our climate crisis, the financial system and the sustainability revolution" at the Green Swan Conference 2021. [via BIS]