After Trump: The Silver Linings Playbook
A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's official. Joe Biden will be the next president. And he ran on a platform that put climate at the top of the agenda.
There's still a lot of tension. What will happen to the balance of power in Congress? Can we make progress on climate, even with Democrats losing down-ballot races?
Even with so much uncertainty, there's actually a lot of good news. In this episode, Leah and Katharine dig into what this moment means for the future of the planet.
We were joined by two heavy-hitters this week: Heather McTeer Toney and Sam Ricketts.
Heather is the Senior Director at Moms Clean Air Force. She's a former EPA regional administrator. And she was the first African-American, first woman, and youngest person ever elected mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. She knows the ins and outs of what a Biden Administration could do to pursue a "just" climate agenda.
Sam Ricketts is a senior fellow for Energy & Environment at the Center for American Progress. And he was climate director for Washington Governor Jay Inslee's presidential campaign. He co-founded Evergreen, an organization at the forefront of developing detailed, progressive climate policies.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Leah, thank goodness. This is a podcast so our listeners cannot see just how much I have aged this week. |
| 0:09.3 | How are you holding up? And most importantly, what did you stress eat on election night? |
| 0:16.2 | Well, it's funny you should say that because I, like many Americans, had to quit wheat recently due to chronic migraines. |
| 0:24.8 | And I may or may not have eaten pizza on election night, which was fairly illegal in my 10-day wheat fast. |
| 0:33.4 | But honestly, it was fine. |
| 0:35.1 | I didn't get a migraine, even with all this stress. |
| 0:37.3 | So I feel like, whatever. |
| 0:39.2 | Eat wheat, live life. |
| 0:40.5 | Sounds good. |
| 0:41.7 | Totally. |
| 0:42.5 | Eat wheat, live life. |
| 0:43.7 | I think that is, that's a great motto, Leah. |
| 0:47.2 | I found myself just like shoving my face with enchiladas and also drinking whiskey. |
| 0:53.4 | That was the solution. Yeah. Well, we're recording |
| 0:58.9 | this now on Friday morning, which you may recall was the morning when Biden and Harris pulled in front |
| 1:05.8 | in Georgia and Pennsylvania. It was a pretty amazing feeling when that happened. And we know votes are still |
| 1:12.2 | trickling in. There are still every vote is being counted. But it's pretty clear at this point |
| 1:18.2 | that Joe Biden is going to be president and Kamala Harris is going to be vice president. |
| 1:25.4 | It is extremely exciting. And largely thanks to the incredible |
| 1:31.8 | organizing efforts of black women in Georgia, which is my home state, we are looking at two |
| 1:38.8 | runoff races that could decide the balance of power in the Senate. So there's a lot of work that is still ahead. |
| 1:47.4 | Yeah, I mean, it's been a crazy week. |
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