Marshall here, welcome back to The Realignment.

I really enjoyed recording today's episode with the author David Lipsky, about his new book,

The Parrot and the Igloo, Climate and the Science of Denial.

This is the author of another highly recommended book, the absolutely American, four years

at West Point, which honestly was the first ever book I read on the military, so it's great

to catch up on my high school reading a decade and a half later.

The Parrot and the Igloo is basically focused on a big question, why, despite 70 years

of scientific consensus on the role of emissions in climate change, hasn't the US taken a broad

policy response and why in the early 21st century is this issue that has firmly fallen into

the culture of war category, where party disagreements around trust, science, and expertise

impede progress.

Broadly speaking though, this is also a conversation about the role of technology in addressing climate

change and the political dynamics of this year over the past 20 or 30 years, so even if

you're not a climate change person, there's lots of interesting side notes there as well.

One other quick note, my bad on not releasing the Marshall Saga Q&A last Friday, a couple

of you guys you know about that, is going to be out tomorrow, so definitely go take a look

there and if not subscribed yet, go to reallignment.supercast.com.

Once again, a huge thank you to the foundation for American Navation for supporting the work

of this podcast.

Hope you all enjoy the conversation.

David Lisske, welcome to the reallignment.

Thanks, Marshall.

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