(2013/05/21) 400 Parts Per Million (Climate/Environment)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 May 2013
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #719
400 Parts Per Million
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: NPR's Defense Of Fracking - CounterSpin - Air Date 3-29-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Black and Blue - Miike Snow
Ch. 4: Act 2: How You Know Fracking Can Not And Will Not Ever Be Safe - Lee Camp - Air Date: 02-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Work out fine - Brad Sucks
Ch. 6: Act 3: GOP Rep's Hilariously Wrong Pro-Oil, Anti-Liberal Tweets - The Young Turks - Air Date: 03-24-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Talkback - Stiff Little Fingers
Ch. 8: Act 4: KS Bill Would Mandate Teachers Misinform on Climate Change - The David Pakman Show - Air Date: 02-22-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Tell the children - Burning Spear
Ch. 10: Act 5: Belief in Biblical End Times Stops Climate Change Action - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-05-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Me and Jesus - Family Guy
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Horrors Of BP's Chemical Dispersant - Citizen Radio - Air Date 4-30-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: I take bribes - Close Lobsters
Ch. 14: Act 7: Putting your neck on the line - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 4-22-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Kilimanjaro - Emma's Revolution
Ch. 16: Act 8: Joe Biden: I'm Against the Keystone Pipeline - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-11-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: How far we've come - Matchbox Twenty
Ch. 18: Act 9: How Much is a Tree Worth? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-09-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Ch. 20: Act 10: Tim DeChristopher on the Future of Climate Activism - Majority Report - Air Date: 05-08-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Out of control - U2
Ch. 22: Act 11: More Scary Numbers on Climate Change - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 05-10-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Sea - George Winston
Ch. 24: Act 12: Disaster at 400 Parts Per Million - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-13-13
Ch. 25: Song 12: Wasting time - Jack Johnson
Ch. 26: Act 13: It's Time to get Serious About Climate Change! - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 05-14-13
Ch. 27: Song 13: You ain't seen nothing yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Ch. 28: Act 14: Why are Conservatives Childishly Opposed to Environmentalism? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-04-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Turning the tables on "what are you afraid of?" - Seek Veracity from Portland, ME
Ch. 30: We always lose when we try to trade liberty for security - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
Ch. 31: Cameras would be used to discriminate against minorities - Ty from Yuma, AZ
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 32: Final comments on 'The Transparent Society' by David Brin
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by the cell phone service company Ting. |
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| 0:08.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of Left Podcasts with Cups today. |
| 0:12.2 | From Counter-Spin, comedian Lee Camp, the David Pakman Show, the Young Turks, Citizen Radio, |
| 0:17.0 | Jim Hightower, the Majority Report, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:20.0 | the Media Matters Minute, the Rachel Maddo Show, and the Progressive. |
| 0:30.2 | So many people believe fracking, a method of releasing oil or gas from rock, |
| 0:35.5 | to be unsafe that hundreds of U.S. communities have voted to ban it. |
| 0:40.3 | If you're unsure how to feel, NPR would like to help with that. |
| 0:44.5 | The network ran a report March 20th that began by explaining that despite |
| 0:49.6 | all the money coming out of the ground in some places, New York doesn't allow fracking, |
| 0:55.7 | which, quote, causes landowners to feel they're being left behind, close quote. |
| 1:01.2 | Listeners meet a three-generation family of dairy farmers whose rewarding but hard life |
| 1:07.5 | is that much harder because they don't have, quote, any natural gas wells and the income |
| 1:12.7 | that comes with them, close quote. Even if New York approves fracking, they still won't make as much |
| 1:19.2 | money as landowners in Pennsylvania where the process was approved earlier. |
| 1:23.8 | But explains NPR's David Chinatri, quote, drilling would still mean jobs, close quote. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, who stands between these hardworking people and money and jobs coming out of the ground? |
| 1:36.5 | It's actor Mark Ruffalo, who is, quote, one of many artists and celebrities who have embraced |
| 1:42.7 | the anti-fracking fight, close quote. Landowners were told, quote, increasingly resent the |
| 1:49.2 | anti's, who they see as meddling outsiders who will never be convinced that fracking can be done |
| 1:54.9 | safely, close quote. Well, rather than hear why they should be convinced, we hear from a resentor, |
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