22 - Bern or Burn: The Green New Deal (w/ David Wallace-Wells & Kate Aronoff)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

With the global biosphere teetering on the edge of disaster, Bernie's Green New Deal plan would fundamentally restructure the US economy away from fossil fuels and toward sustainability, development, and justice. Briahna talks to David Wallace-Wells, New York magazine editor and author of The Uninhabitable Earth, about just how bad the climate crisis is. Then, Intercept journalist Kate Aronoff explains what sets Bernie's climate plan apart from the competition. In short, its ambition matches the scale of the problem. David's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/9780525576709/ And his 2017 article: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html Kate's article on Bernie's Green New Deal: https://theintercept.com/2019/08/22/bernie-sanders-climate-policy/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The fires have spread a vast plume of smoke across South America and the Atlantic
0:07.0	ocean that's visible from space. They're unprecedented in recorded history and environmentalists
0:12.4	say most of the fires were deliberately set by
0:14.5	illegal miners and cattle ranchers. Brazil's president says the country can
0:18.4	handle the situation on its own. We live a struggle all the time. It's not something new. It's new for the world now because they affect the big city like Sao Paulo.
0:29.0	The interim Brazilian diplomat says the government is working to protect the Amazon but also has an obligation to provide economic development and opportunities for the more than 25 million people that lives in the Amazon region. In late August, Bernie Sanders introduced his Green New Deal plan in Paradise, California,
0:56.0	the site of the devastating campfire disaster, which all but entirely destroyed a community of 26,000 people.
1:04.0	If there is any silver lining in this terrible tragedy in this beautiful town
1:08.9	is that I hope people of the United States and the people of the world understand that we need
1:15.0	bold and aggressive action to combat climate change which is the common enemy
1:22.3	not just for the United States but for countries all over the world
1:25.6	Foney's plan takes seriously last year's IPCC report which said that if we want to avoid
1:31.2	the most cataclysmic effects of climate change, we have to have global emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2050.
1:40.0	Now, while other candidates are less ambitious, Sanders' plan will decarbonize
1:45.7	transportation and power generation, the two largest sources of U.S. emissions by 2030.
1:52.0	It will also lower U.S. emissions by 2030. It will also lower U.S. emissions by 71 percent. We will
1:56.5	invest in countries abroad too and reduce emissions among less industrialized nations
2:01.1	by 36 percent by 2030. Now that's the total equivalent of reducing
2:05.8	our domestic emissions by 161%. Furness Plan will cost16.3 trillion, but as always,
2:15.0	Bernie has a plan to pay for that.
2:17.0	Revenue from publicly owned renewable energy will generate trillions of dollars.
2:22.0	Additional revenue will come from taxes on the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bernie 2020, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bernie 2020 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.