(2010/04/17) Backwards politics and the climate (Climate) (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 April 2010
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #353
Backwards politics and the climate
Act 1: Annie Leonard on stuff - Colbert Report
Act 2: Dr. James Hansen - Storms of my grandchildren - Thom Hartmann
Act 3: Chamber of commerce and the climate - Ring of Fire
Act 4: Facing America's energy crisis Part 1 - Moyers' Journal
Act 5: British House of Commons on 'climate gate' - Counterspin
Act 6: Facing America's energy crisis Part 2 - Moyers' Journal
Act 7: Obama's switcheroo on offshore drilling - The Progressive
Act 8: Oilmen fund anti-climate change groups - Young Turks
Act 9: Media reaction to offshore drilling - Counterspin
Act 10: Not taking 'yes' for an answer - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Tree Hugging Pentagon - Ring of Fire
Music:
Time to take out the trash - Brad Sucks
Breathe me - Sia
On the turning away - Pink Floyd
Energy - The Apples In Stereo
The airway - Owl City
Don't Let It Bring You Down - Annie Lennox & Steven Lipson
Sill can't - The Cranberries
Fake plastic trees - Radiohead
Shut your eyes - Shout Out Louds
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is made possible not just in part but entirely by the support of you the listeners. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from the Colbert Report, |
| 0:13.0 | the Tom Hartman program Ring of Fire, Bill Moyers Journal, CounterSpin, the Progressive magazine, |
| 0:19.0 | The Young Turks, and the Rachel Maddo Show, with the bonus clip today for our iPhone app users from Ring of Fire. |
| 0:30.0 | My kiss tonight believes Americans have too much stuff, but how else are we supposed to fill up our too much house? |
| 0:36.0 | Please welcome Annie Leonard. |
| 0:42.0 | Bye. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey, Ms. Leonard, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, young lady, you are the author of a book called The Story of Stuff. |
| 0:52.0 | Yep, just out today. |
| 0:53.0 | Just out today and it's in support and related to a very popular film that you have up on the internet. |
| 1:00.0 | It's a craze called The Story of Stuff. |
| 1:04.0 | And I believe we have a clip right now. Jim Schum, we're talking about it. |
| 1:08.0 | Some analysts say we have less leisure time than any time since feudal society. |
| 1:12.0 | And do you know what the two main activities are that we do with the scant leisure time we have? |
| 1:17.0 | Watch TV and shop. |
| 1:20.0 | In the US, we spend three to four times as many hours shopping as our counterparts in Europe do. |
| 1:25.0 | So we're in this ridiculous situation where we go to work, maybe two jobs, even when we come home and we're exhausted. |
| 1:30.0 | So we plop down on our new couch and watch TV. |
| 1:32.0 | And the commercials tell us, you suck. |
| 1:34.0 | So we've got to go to them all to buy something to feel better. |
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