#1456 Capitalism and Colonialism vs Climate Progress
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 11/20/2021
Today we take a look at the state of international climate negotiations and the intersection of capitalism and colonialism in the role of indigenous peoples around the world in stewarding the lands in a climate-friendly way.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking Part 1 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-15-21
We talk to journalist Elizabeth Kolbert about this history the COP
Ch. 2: Is COP26 Set To End in Failure? Part 1 - TyskySour - Air Date 11-12-21
Negotiations in Glasgow are going down to the wire, yet few believe world leaders will get us anywhere near limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. Is COP26 heading for failure? We speak to Simon Lewis. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Ch. 3: Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking Part 2 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-15-21
Coming off of COP26, we talk to journalist David Wallace-Wells about the real cost of the climate crisis and who is paying the price.
Ch. 4: COP26 Closes Out What Comes Next - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 11-15-21
Negotiations at COP26 have been formalized into the Glasgow Climate Pact and already faces criticism. Julian Brave NoiseCat, climate activist, writer and fellow at New America and the Type Media Center, discusses disappointment in the agreement.
Ch. 5: Is COP26 Set To End in Failure? Part 2 - TyskySour - Air Date 11-12-21
Thousands of youth activists from all over the world gathered in Scotland this week for the COP26 UN climate summit. They say climate change is already transforming their countries and that their generation has the most to lose.
Ch. 7: Promises to Help the Climate Keep Breaking Part 3 - The United States of Anxiety - Air Date 11-15-21
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Is COP26 Set To End in Failure? Part 3 - TyskySour - Air Date 11-12-21
Ch. 9: Border walls and the climate crisis Nick Buxton - This is Hell! - Air Date 11-3-21
The Transnational Institute's Nick Buxton on the report "Global Climate Wall" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen judges a costume contest.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments with an update on shifting conservative baseline syndrome
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: At night, a white light projection on a stone monument in Glasgow, Scotland (UK) reads “Reject False Solutions”.
Credit: “COP26 light projection in Glasgow by Backbone and friends” by Backbone Campaign, Flickr | License | Changes: Cropped
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:07.0 | a look at the state of international climate negotiations and the intersection of capitalism |
| 0:12.2 | and colonialism in the role of indigenous peoples around the world in stewarding the |
| 0:16.9 | lands in a climate-friendly way. |
| 0:19.4 | Clips today are from the United States of anxiety, Tisky Sour, the Brian Lairer Show, |
| 0:25.6 | and consider this with additional members only clips from Tisky Sour and this is hell. |
| 0:37.2 | First off, cop, you know, for those who aren't following, that's conference of parties, |
| 0:40.9 | that's the nations who have agreed to a treaty to reduce our emissions. |
| 0:47.4 | And I like how you put it in your article, you wrote that, quote, cop 26 is a sequel to cop |
| 0:51.7 | 21, which is an attempt to recover from the mess of cop 15. |
| 0:56.1 | You know, and you say we've got to go all the way back to the conference that preceded |
| 0:59.6 | all of these, quote, bad cops. |
| 1:01.9 | And that was the 1992 so-called Earth Summit. |
| 1:04.7 | So take us back there. |
| 1:06.5 | This was in Rio 1992. |
| 1:08.2 | Why is it important to understand what happened there for understanding our climate conversations |
| 1:12.5 | now? |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.5 | So that was a, you know, big moment. |
| 1:16.4 | It was called the Earth Summit and it itself was the 20th anniversary of a big summit that |
| 1:20.7 | had been held in 1972 and in Stockholm. |
| 1:24.6 | And what happened at the Earth Summit was climate change was in the scientific community |
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