(2013/08/30) The troubling state of the climate, plus jokes (Climate)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 August 2013
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Summary
Edition #750
The troubling state of the climate, plus jokes
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Climate Change - David Mitchell's SoapBox - Air Date: 07-08-10
Ch. 3: Song 1: Clean up - Ari Herstand
Ch. 4: Act 2: Koch Brothers' new Pledge for Planet Destruction - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-04-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: This land is your land - Peter, Paul & Mary
Ch. 6: Act 3: Who Needs the EPA? - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Great divide - The Cardigans
Ch. 8: Act 4: The Yes Men vs. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Yes Lab Media - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Little white lies - Annette Hanshaw
Ch. 10: Act 5: Keystone Clones - Mark Fiore's Animation - Air Date: 08-20-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Momentum - Aimee Mann
Ch. 12: Act 6: Obama Hints At Shift On Keystone Pipeline - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-04-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Talk is cheap - Eric Hutchinson
Ch. 14: Act 7: Draw the Line on Keystone - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: Climate Name Change - 350.org
Ch. 17: Song 8: Hurricane - The Scorpions
Ch. 18: Act 9: Climate Change Catastrophe: Mass Extinction Event or Slow Socioeconomic Decline? - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-02-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: This slow decline - F. Lee Rock
Ch. 20: Act 10: Spain Privatizes the Sun: Solar Power Collection Tax - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 08-04-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Makes no sense - The Rainmakers
Ch. 22: Act 11: The Source Of Misinformation On Climate Change - Green News Report - Air Date 8-8-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Money (That's what I want) - Barrett Strong
Ch. 24: Act 12: Can You Believe In Global Warming AND God? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-17-13
Ch. 25: Song 12: Genesis - VNV Nation
Ch. 26: Act 13: New Global Warming Report Bleak - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 8-20-13
Ch. 27: Song 13: Liquid Sun - The Beginning (A New Hope) - DJ Keoki
Ch. 28: Act 14: Burden of Proof - David Mitchell's Soapbox - Air Date: 09-15-11
Voicemails:
Ch. 29: Insects, food and the minimum wage - Vicki from Oregon
Ch. 30: A story from the other side of the closet - Yvonne from Wilmington, DE
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 31: Final comments on noting those on the margins and checking out biases
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://act.350.org/event/draw_the_line/search/
http://act.350.org/event/draw_the_line/create/
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175920/another-delay-keystone-xl
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rocky-kistner/health-problems-still-pla_b_3818110.html
https://www.facebook.com/TarSandsBlockade
http://grist.org/article/new-report-less-than-1-percent-of-tar-sands-environmental-infractions-penalized/
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/02/1810571/exxons-duck-killing-pipeline-doesnt-pay-taxes-to-oil-spill-cleanup-fund/
https://twitter.com/Steve_Horn1022
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/may/08/academics-canada-tar-sands-production
Sponsored by the UnFuck it Up Project: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Unfuck-It-Up/196389490396988
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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 of |
| 0:05.3 | visit the membership tab at Best of the Left.com. |
| 0:08.1 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Hubsiday from David Mitchell |
| 0:12.4 | Soapbox, the Tom Hartman program, the Rachel Maddo show, Yes Lab Media, MarkFurray.com, |
| 0:19.0 | the Young Turks, activism from the Unfuck It Up project, 350.org, the Majority Report, |
| 0:24.8 | the David Packen show, the Green News report, and the Progressive magazine. |
| 0:30.1 | It seems such a pity that the clear scientific fact of climate change is seldom expressed |
| 0:35.2 | by people who don't seem at least a little bit pleased by it. |
| 0:39.1 | Similarly, sorting it out is always presented as an opportunity or a pleasure, or as something |
| 0:44.0 | we ought to have been doing for years anyway. |
| 0:46.6 | In fact, it's just a thing, a really depressing thing that's happening, but the people who |
| 0:51.3 | tell us so always seem to be radiating one or both of those old parental standbys, I |
| 0:56.4 | warned you this would happen. |
| 0:57.8 | There are also often slight undertones of disparagement about industrial pioneers and |
| 1:01.6 | the human urge to innovate in general, as if poor old George Stevenson should have known |
| 1:05.5 | perfectly well that when he got that kettle to travel along rails, it would lead inexorably |
| 1:09.8 | to planetary jeopardy. |
| 1:10.8 | We'll take that to his logical conclusion and you're labelling the first caveman who |
| 1:14.3 | ever fashioned an axe as a cross between Dr. Oppenheimer and BP. |
| 1:18.2 | This is all grist to the mill of the Clarksons of the world, because it means environmentalists |
| 1:22.4 | present sorting your recycling as fun, and he presents driving to the North Pole in a |
| 1:26.8 | four by four while drinking gin as fun, and he obviously wins. |
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