At Harvard With Obama’s Climate Team

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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With the Green New Deal in the national spotlight, a vigorous debate is happening: how ambitiously and broadly must the U.S. act on climate? Are issues like economic equity, job security and public health outside the frame of climate action — or fundamental to its success? Greg Dalton welcomes two key members of President Obama’s climate team: former White House Science Advisor John Holdren and former U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, in a special program recorded at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Holdren, Former Science Advisor to President Obama, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government Gina McCarthy, Former U.S. EPA Administrator; Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.5	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:48.2	Climate One recently traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to record a special program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
0:55.3	Health with two environmental champions.
0:57.5	I am tired of a debate of our climate change as if we're sacrificing or giving up anything
1:05.0	to actually address it. Gina McCarthy served as U.S. EPA administrator under President Obama in his second term.
1:13.0	She now directs the Harvard Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment.
1:17.3	McCarthy sees climate change as a public health issue that involves everyone, especially
1:21.9	communities most impacted by pollution from fossil fuels.
1:25.6	There is no silver bullet.
1:26.9	I say that so often that some of my colleagues are calling me silver shotgun Holdren.
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