181. A U.S. Special: Making The Irresistible Irreversible!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism, where we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue on building a sustainable future.
In this episode, co-hosts Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac go deep into U.S. domestic energy policy with guests U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and White House Deputy National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi.
First up, the critical topic of energy justice: Granholm updates the team on the Justice40 Initiative, in which an unprecedented 40 percent of federal energy investments are earmarked for disadvantaged and historically underserved communities that are overburdened by pollution. The plans, which seek to reckon with deep-seated inequities, are ambitious, exciting, and groundbreaking.
Speaking of action, Tom and Christiana’s next guest is optimist and White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi. He contends the U.S. is on a positive linear trajectory and accelerating exponentiallyーnot just in clean energy or emissions reduction but in terms of the political economy backing these actions. Get the scoop on how federal agencies and departments are pushing forward together.
We finish the episode with the beautiful track “Until the Day” by Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter BEL. Additional details are included in the show notes below.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, listeners, to outrage and optimism, we need your help. |
| 0:02.9 | We are doing a listener survey, which we do now and again. |
| 0:05.8 | It's so important to get your feedback. |
| 0:07.7 | All of the details can be found in all of our social media feeds. |
| 0:11.2 | Please, if you follow us, if you like the podcast, |
| 0:13.4 | we would be so grateful if you would go there and let us know some details. |
| 0:16.8 | It's important they do this, isn't it, Kristiana? |
| 0:18.8 | Definitely. Just to make things easy, we'll put it again in the show notes. |
| 0:23.0 | In the show notes. Alright, here we go. Here's the episode. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, and welcome to Outrageant Optimism. I'm Tom Ravikarnak. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Kristiana Pogetis, and the shadow, Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:46.2 | We have no Paul this week, he'll be back next week, |
| 0:48.4 | but we do bring you a special edition focusing on US domestic policy |
| 0:53.7 | with Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, and White House Climate Advisor, Ali Zadi. |
| 0:59.3 | And we have music from Bell. Thanks for being here. |
| 1:11.9 | So, Kristiana, just a little old ass this week. |
| 1:13.6 | I think Paul's missed an episode in two or three years, actually. |
| 1:16.4 | So, I don't quite know what he's up to, but I'm sure we'll be back next week. |
| 1:19.4 | This is going to be brief. |
| 1:21.2 | We are bringing you today an episode that we have long talked about, |
| 1:25.2 | which is a deep dive into what's happening in the US. |
| 1:28.4 | The US, obviously, as the world's largest economy, second largest emitter, |
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