{"id":1269840,"date":"2022-02-04T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269840"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T05:38:22","slug":"cate-blanchett-teams-with-mega-polluter-amazon-for-climate-change-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cate-blanchett-teams-with-mega-polluter-amazon-for-climate-change-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett Teams with Mega Polluter Amazon for Climate Change Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcate-blanchett-teams-with-mega-polluter-amazon-for-climate-change-podcast%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Hollywood star Cate Blanchett is reportedly joining forces with mega-polluter Amazon to launch a podcast devoted to discussing climate change.&nbsp;The series, which has received a two-season order on Audible, will also feature climate activist&nbsp;Danny Kennedy as co-host.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon ranks among the world\u2019s biggest polluters, producing more carbon emissions than some small countries. Last year, the e-commerce giant reported an&nbsp;absolute global carbon footprint for 2020 of 60 million metric tonnes \u2013 nearly 20 percent more than the prior year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The company\u2019s carbon footprint is larger than those of Switzerland and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter: Blanchett\u2019s Audible podcast promises to get to the heart of what the star called our \u201ceco-anxiety.\u201d \u201cWe hope that our listeners enjoy hearing the conversations as much as we have enjoyed having them,\u201d the actress said in a statement to Deadline, which first <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/02\/cate-blanchett-sets-climate-change-podcast-audible-1234924523\/\">reported<\/a> the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Cate Blanchett Sets Climate Change Podcast At&nbsp;Audible <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qvh2tluAdb\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qvh2tluAdb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/1489252664407773187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Deadline reported the podcast will feature uplifting stories about what is being done to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchett stars in Netflix\u2019s climate-change satire <em>Don\u2019t Look Up<\/em>, in which she plays the vapid co-host of a network morning show.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19746698\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1271679241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19746698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1271679241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Venezia77 Jury President Cate Blanchett is seen during the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2020 in Venice, Italy. (Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/29\/actress-cate-blanchett-on-climate-change-we-need-to-be-fking-scared-and-demand-change\/\">interview<\/a> with Porter, the digital outlet of&nbsp;Net-A-Porter, the two-time Oscar-winning star said people are insufficiently concerned about global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is trying to be positive, talking about 1.5 degrees of global warming. But 1.5 would still be disastrous,\u201d she told the outlet.&nbsp;\u201cWe need to be fucking scared\u2026 and demand change; be collectively courageous enough to face that fear and do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her native Australia, the actress has faced criticism for her climate change activism.<\/p>\n<p>Some politicians dubbed her \u201cCarbon Cate\u201d after she appeared in a commercial in 2011 advocating for a carbon tax being pushed by green activists.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accused Cate Blanchett of hypocrisy, noting her carbon footprint as a globetrotting celebrity. They also pointed out her close professional association with automaker Audi, which was a major corporate sponsor of the Sydney Theatre Company, where she was serving as co-artistic director at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star Cate Blanchett is reportedly joining forces with mega-polluter Amazon to launch a podcast devoted to discussing climate change.\u00a0The series, which has received a two-season order on Audible, will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}