#1505 The Largest Investment in Climate Mitigation in US History
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Air Date 8/5/2022
Today, we take a look at the politics of energy and climate in a world addicted to fossil fuels but full of people striving to push us past the tipping point toward a clean energy future
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Biden Fist Bumps A Pariah - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 7-19-22
Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the hypocrisy of President Joe Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia, and how the Saudis are trying to buy their legitimacy through sports.
This episode features a live conversation co-hosted by Evergreen Action, featuring Senator Ed Markey, Representative Pramila Jayapal, and Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
We speak with Jean Su, energy justice director and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, who co-wrote a report detailing how the president can use emergency powers to address the climate crisis.
Ch. 4: Did Joe Manchin just save the planet? - Today, Explained - Air Date 8-3-22
Probably not, but he did finally compromise on the Inflation Reduction Act (née Build Back Better), which could be the most significant climate spending bill in US history. Vox’s Li Zhou and Rebecca Leber explain.
There’s a way to tell the story that connects to policy and planning, but that centers human beings. We talked about that during last year’s heat wave with Portland State University professor Vivek Shandas.
Ch. 7: What If The Fed Bought Out The Oil Industry - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 7-18-22
Progressive economist, Robert Pollin, gives us his take on the causes and remedies of the current inflationary spiral, and what both the Fed and the Biden Administration can do about it.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Dirty World - Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior - Air Date 7-19-22
This week we take on shady internal affairs (the enormous number of people in the Trump crime cult circle who died violent or mysterious deaths) and burning external affairs (the horrors of climate change and Joe Manchin’s role in destroying the planet).
Progressives care about climate change and we care about the environment. So it is great to know that with Democratic leadership action is being taken to move us forward in the effort to protect ourselves from the consequences of global warming.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Response to neurodivergence episode - Bill from St. Petersburg, FL
Ch. 11: Neurodiversity - Larry
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the range of normal
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Among a crowd of protestors, a man holds up a sign that reads “DECLARE CLIMATE EMERGENCY” in hand-painted black letters on a red background.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.3 | take a look at the politics of energy and climate in a world-addict to fossil fuels, but |
| 0:12.9 | full of people striving to push past the tipping point toward a clean energy future. |
| 0:18.5 | Crops today are from the Muckwick political podcast, a matter of degrees, democracy now, |
| 0:25.1 | today explained, counter-spin, and the Ralph Nader radio hour with additional members |
| 0:30.3 | only clips from Gaslit Nation and the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:34.7 | While this is all around the fact that the price of oil has gotten so high, and global market |
| 0:45.8 | and all that, whatever this stuff means, but here's the thing, Trump had to go to them |
| 0:50.4 | and during his administration and told them they needed to lower their amount of that they |
| 0:56.1 | were piping out because the price of oil had gotten so low during the beginning of the |
| 1:00.2 | pandemic. |
| 1:01.2 | And they figured out that, you know what, if we limit our capacity for making oil, the |
| 1:05.6 | price goes up, and that's really fascinating, Jared, and why would we ever want to increase |
| 1:10.8 | that again if the price stays high for us? |
| 1:16.1 | It's a manipulated market. |
| 1:17.6 | I think that's what we have to say here. |
| 1:19.2 | Yes. |
| 1:20.2 | If Biden could go on to Twitter and say, you know what, people at the gas pump who are |
| 1:24.2 | running your gas stations, you got to lower those prices and they'll, hey, look all of |
| 1:27.2 | a sudden, oh my gosh, after a week or so, they start lowering their prices, and then |
| 1:31.1 | it goes there and then the price goes down. |
| 1:33.1 | It's all manipulated. |
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