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#67 A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal w/ Thea Riofrancos

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Thea Riofrancos joins me to discuss 'A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal' a new book co-authored by Thea. We spoke about why the New Deal is the right framing for a project to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis, why environmental victories are necessarily entwined with the struggle against inequality, and the importance to the climate movement of forging alliances across borders and through supply chains and how to achieve rapid roll out of renewable technologies without compounding environmental devastation and injustice at sites of rare earth mineral extraction.

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The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to

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the Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine. My name is Alex

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Doherty and my guest today is Thea Rio Francos. We spoke about

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a planet to win, why we need a green new deal, a new book co-authored by Thea and out now from Verso

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Books. We spoke about why the notion of a new deal is the right framing for a project to

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avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis, why environmental victories are necessarily

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entwined with the struggle against inequality, and the importance to the climate movement of

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forging alliances across borders and through supply chains, and how to achieve rapid

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rollout of renewable technologies without compounding environmental devastation and injustice

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at sites of rare earth mineral extraction.

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Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by Verso Books,

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who have just launched their end of year sale.

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With 50% off everything until the end of the year, you'll find reading on the rise of

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automation, the threat of catastrophic climate change,

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as well as books that show us the potential for radical change.

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They also have bundled e-books with every print purchase,

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meaning you can gift the print book if you want to and start reading the e-book straight

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away visit versobooks.com for more information

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Theoria Francos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College

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