(2010/07/10) A celebration of science (Climate Change)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 July 2010
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #383
A celebration of science
Act 1: NUMMI is reborn for electric cars - NPR
Song 1: Electric car - They might be giants
Act 2: News of the warm 1 - Le Show
Song 2: Warning sign - Coldplay
Act 3: Bill McKibben Interview Part 1 - The Progressive
Song 3: Fake Empire - The National
Act 4: Climate change vs. Biblical Armageddon - The Onion
Song 4: The end's not near - Band of Horses
Act 5: Bill McKibben Interview Part 2 - The Progressive
Song 5: Big black nothing - Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band
Act 6: How to draw attention to climate rallies - Counterspin
Song 6: Starsign - Apoptygma Berzerk
Act 7: Bill McKibben Interview Part 3 - The Progressive
Song 7: Drive - R.E.M.
Act 8: Denying science - Ring of Fire
Song 8: Science is real - They might be giants
Act 9: News of the warm 2 - Le Show
Song 9: Polar bear - The Quiet Two
Act 10: What the fuck is wrong with you people - Bill Maher
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Quest For Arctic Riches - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible by the support of the members and donors to the show for details |
| 0:05.2 | or to sign up to visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Clips Today from NPR, La Show, |
| 0:14.0 | The Progressive Magazine, The Onion Radio News, Counter-Spin, Ring of Fire, and Real Time |
| 0:19.0 | with Bill Marr, with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app users from the Colbert Rappour. |
| 0:30.0 | Thousands of unemployed auto workers in Northern California believe they may have a future |
| 0:35.4 | building electric cars. |
| 0:37.4 | Their hopes center around a new deal between the giant car maker Toyota and the far smaller |
| 0:42.7 | electric car company Tesla Motors. |
| 0:45.6 | To that deal, bringing new life to a closed Toyota plant, NPR's Richard Gonzalez reports |
| 0:51.0 | from the Bay Area City of Fremont. |
| 0:53.4 | For 25 years, Toyota ran a unique joint venture with general motors called new United Motor |
| 0:59.1 | Manufacturing Inc. or NUME for short. |
| 1:02.4 | That partnership ended when GM went bankrupt and in April Toyota shuttered the plant in Fremont, |
| 1:07.5 | leaving about 4,700 workers jobless and looking for a miracle. |
| 1:11.9 | Now some of them think they have found it. |
| 1:13.6 | This week a small group of religious community and labor leaders praised the news of the Toyota |
| 1:26.9 | Tesla partnership. |
| 1:28.4 | This is a reverend carol being. |
| 1:30.4 | And as we ask Toyota to encourage and invest in these workers once again, we give thanks |
| 1:38.7 | in celebration for what has been and in this anxious time we pray for what will be. |
| 1:47.3 | That all 4,700 workers will come back to work. |
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