An Origin Story of the Blue New Deal

How to Save a Planet

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Science, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, the inside scoop on how a climate policy gets made. In 2019, when the Green New Deal resolution was unveiled, How to Save a Planet co-host Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson noticed something big (and blue) was missing: the ocean. The ocean is not just a victim of climate change, it’s also a hero, offering many climate solutions. Ayana, along with a bunch of other ocean policy nerds, didn’t want these solutions to go ignored. So how does a plea to remember the ocean become federal policy? In this episode, we learn from people who made it happen, how the power of the pen (or keyboard) can help catalyze climate action. Thanks to our guests Chad Nelsen, Maggie Thomas and Jean Flemma! Calls to Action In a few of our recent episodes we’ve asked listeners to call congress. You can check out our tips for doing that in the Calls to Action Archive, and also add these tips courtesy of Jean Flemma–co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab and former congressional staffer–to your outreach strategy: Follow your congressperson on social media, share what you care about by tagging them, and thank them when they support legislation you support. When you reach out via email, write your own note instead of using a form letter or only signing a petition. It’s more time consuming, but much better at actually getting their attention! The Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act is finally gaining some traction, so if you care about this issue, call / email / tweet your congressperson! Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by our intern, Ayo Oti. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis, Rachel Waldholz and Anna Ladd. Our senior producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Emma Munger, Bobby Lord, and Peter Leonard. Our fact checker this week is Angely Mercado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet.
0:03.4	I'm Dr. Iyana Elizabeth Johnson.
0:05.1	And I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the show where we're talking about what we need
0:08.4	to do to address climate change and how to make those things happen.
0:15.3	So, just one week after Joe Biden took office, he signed an executive order called the executive
0:29.6	order on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad.
0:34.7	And this is a document which lays out a plan for what the Biden administration wants
0:38.5	the U.S. government to do on climate change.
0:41.5	And it's lots of stuff in this plan, some of which we've talked about before on this
0:45.7	very show, Iyana.
0:46.7	Yeah, there's a lot, a lot of ground covered in there.
0:50.0	Like plans to move the country to a carbon-free electricity to transition the nation's vehicles
0:54.4	to electric, big plans to increase public transportation.
0:58.2	But it's not like Joe Biden just sat down his first day in the White House and just
1:01.6	wrote all of this.
1:03.1	Right.
1:04.1	It represents the work of easily hundreds of people who've been working on climate policy
1:08.8	for many years on the research that goes into it, all the science.
1:13.5	And those ideas have been carried forward and championed and eventually became a part
1:19.2	of this document.
1:20.2	Right.
1:21.2	In fact, I would go so far to say that every line in this document probably has a pretty
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