Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely,

bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action around the world.

This week I talked to Sarah Jaffy, journalist and author of Work Went Love You Back, how

devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted and alone. We discussed Joe Biden's first

weeks as president, the impact of COVID-19 and climate break down in the US, and how the

world of work is changing as a result of the pandemic and how we might resist it.

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Heavyweight Champion of the world as our intro and outro music, and now here is Sarah Jaffy

on how Texas became the new frontier of the climate emergency.

Hello, Sarah, and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of a world to win how you

doing. I am all right. It's snowing again here and I'm rather tired of the snow, but you

know, it's it's fine. It's fine. Everything's good. So speaking of snow, can you fill us

in a little bit as to what's been going on in Texas? Because all I know is that it's

snowing or something and people are getting like 10 to 20 thousand dollar fuel bills. What's

going on? So this is what happens when you utterly do regulate your energy industry, right?

And so Texas in particular, although a lot of the American South is having a climate change

related deep freeze at the moment, which is not normal for that part of the country. It's

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