(2013/07/28) High water marks (Climate)
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🗓️ 28 July 2013
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Summary
Edition #740
High water marks
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Belief in Bible End Times Stifling Climate Change Action - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-07-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle
Ch. 4: Act 2: Living In Total Denial - Dan Savage - Air Date 7-2-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Before My Time (feat. Scarlett Johansson & Joshua Bell) - J. Ralph featuring Scarlett Johansson & Joshua Bell
Ch. 6: Act 3: Non-Coverage Of Major Climate Speech - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-5-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: High water - Paul Robeson
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fracking Feud - On the Media - Air Date: 6-21-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Winter Winds - Piano Tribute Players
Ch. 10: Act 5: CNBC's Climate Denial is Bad for Business - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 06-18-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Winter Winds - Piano Tribute Players
Ch. 12: Act 6: Fracking Federal Land - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 13: Song 6: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Fossil Fuel Industry Needs to Pay for its Sins - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-02-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Taxman - Nickel Creek
Ch. 16: Act 8: The West Coast Under 25 Feet Of Water - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-20-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Sink, Florida, Sink - Against Me!
Ch. 18: Act 9: A Prius Isn't Enough: Getting Real on Climate Change - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-19-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Revolution (Human Need Over Profit) - Tha Truth
Ch. 20: Act 10: An Eco-Socialist's Weather Forecast - Green News Report - Air Date 7-18-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: On prisons, Patton Oswalt and rape jokes - Josh from Dallas, TX
Ch. 22: Mixed feelings about the verdict - Casey from Chicago, IL
Ch. 23: Thanks for Zimmerman show and to TWiB - Rob from Spokane, WA
Ch. 24: The law is the problem - Ben from Orlando
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments to play one last Zimmerman clip:
Laws are not always just - Radio Dispatch - Air Date: 7-17-13
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
https://secure.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1471&s_src=1307_MotherJones_Fracking&utm_source=MoJoEmail&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=pmaqfjxu3f.app331b#startform
https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=241
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/
http://www.freshlawblog.com/2013/06/12/extension-of-comment-period-for-proposed-federal-fracking-regulations/
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/07/income-inequality-and-fracking-boom
http://grist.org/news/draft-fed-rules-would-let-frackers-do-whatever-they-want-but-theyre-still-not-happy/ ( h/t http://bradblog.com )
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
Katie Klabusich, director: http://katiespeak.com
Produced by:
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestofLeft.com Now welcome to the award-winning BestofLeft podcast |
| 0:11.2 | with Cubsiday from the David Pakman Show, Dan Savage, CounterSpin, On The Media, The |
| 0:15.4 | Unfucked Up Project, The Media Matters Minute, The Tom Hartman program, The Young Turks, |
| 0:19.6 | The Majority Report, and The Green News Report. And I note that by my count this episode |
| 0:24.0 | contains exactly one piece of good news. See if you can find it. |
| 0:30.0 | When people talk about positive or negative effect of religion, I like to look at whether |
| 0:35.0 | religion specifically and religious beliefs have a tangible, a measurable effect in terms |
| 0:42.6 | of impeding progress, impeding action, and time after time after time, we find evidence |
| 0:49.1 | of that. And we find evidence of that in a raw story article, which points out that |
| 0:54.0 | belief in biblical end times. In other words, the belief that there is just a date certain |
| 1:00.7 | at which the earth will be destroyed, the universe will be destroyed by some higher power |
| 1:05.5 | for any number of reasons, is actually making people particularly religious conservatives |
| 1:11.7 | less interested in taking action on climate change. You surprised about this? Not at all. |
| 1:16.8 | The United States has failed time after time to take real action to mitigate climate change. |
| 1:24.3 | And one of the big factors in this, when you look at the research from David Barker of |
| 1:28.8 | the University of Pittsburgh and David Beers of the University of Colorado, is that a belief |
| 1:35.0 | in biblical end times that the world has an expiration date of sorts is a motivating |
| 1:40.3 | factor in the resistance behind curbing climate change. This is just, it's disturbing because |
| 1:48.0 | of the real, because it's so real. That's really what I think. The fact that such an overwhelming |
| 1:53.2 | percentage of Republican citizens profess a belief in the second coming, 76%, just a |
| 1:58.6 | few years ago, according to our sample, suggests that governmental attempts to curb greenhouse |
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