A World to Win: Planet on Fire w/ Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace talks to Mat Lawrence, director of the think tank Common Wealth, and Laurie Layborn Langton, author and researcher, about their new book Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown.

Planet on Fire argues that ‘the political status quo has no answer to the devastating and inequitably distributed consequences of the climate emergency’ and, in this episode, the guests discuss the multiple overlapping ecological, economic, and political crises the world is facing in the era of environmental breakdown, as well as how the Left should respond.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a world to win, a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely bringing
0:18.0	you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world. This week
0:23.2	I talk to Matt Lawrence, director of the Think Tank Commonwealth and Laurie Labon Langton
0:27.7	author and researcher about their new book, Planet on Fire, a manifesto for the age of
0:32.6	environmental breakdown. We discuss the multiple overlapping ecological, economic and political
0:37.7	crises the world is facing in the era of climate breakdown, the rise of eco-fascism
0:42.5	and how the left should respond. Thank you as always to all our amazing patrons
0:46.8	who make the show possible. If you want access to the full hour long episode of this show,
0:50.9	as well as full length interviews with previous guests like Naomi Klein and Dr. Cornel West,
0:55.3	please support us on patreon.com slash a world to win pod. There's a link in the description.
1:00.5	If you want to support the show in another way, please give us a rating on iTunes to keep us
1:04.8	up in the charts and share your favourite episodes on social media, tagging at a world to win
1:09.3	pod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Another big thank you to Reverend and the Makers
1:14.4	who've let us use their track Heavyweight Champion of the world as our intro and outro music.
1:18.8	And now here is Matt Lawrence and Laurie Labon Langton on their new book, Planet on Fire.
1:25.3	Hello, to Matt for Lawrence and Laurie Labon Langton and thank you for joining me today on this
1:34.9	episode of a world to win. How are you both doing? We good. It's lovely to be here with you.
1:39.2	Yeah, good to see you. Great. Oh, here you go. It's a pleasure to have you both on the show.
1:44.9	As some listeners may know, Matt Laurie and I, full disclosure, used to work together at the
1:51.6	IPPR at the Institute of Public Policy Research. So this is something of a fun reunion, isn't it, guys?
1:56.8	I think that's primarily why we're doing it, aren't we? Yeah. We would be sued like we were
2:04.5	that one time over that report. That's that's the question. Yeah, we're not going to go into that
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