Behind the News: COP26 Debrief & Steve Bannon's War on the State

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🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Doug talks with Christina Gerhardt on the COP26 climate summit. Plus, an interview with Mike Lofgren on the dangers of Steve Bannon's war on the administrative state (article here).

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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0:00.0	.
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0:34.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:36.0	My name is Doug Hinwood.
0:38.0	Two guests today.
0:40.0	The environmental journalist Kristina Gerhardt will review the accomplishments
0:42.0	or lack of them at the COP26 climate summit.
0:44.0	And former Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren will explore
0:48.0	what the recently indicted Steve Bannon means by deconstructing the administrative state.
0:53.0	Last week I promised some comments and inflation,
0:56.0	and I'm going to have to defer the fulfillment of that promise until next week.
1:00.0	For the first half of November delegates from around the world met in Glasgow at the annual
1:04.0	UN-sponsored climate conference.
1:06.0	In the strange language of diplomacy, the series of meetings is known as the conference of parties
1:10.0	abbreviated as COP or COP.
1:13.0	And since this was the 26th meeting in the series, it was known as COP26.
1:17.0	COP26 was supposed to have been held in April 2020,
1:21.0	but COVID made that impossible, so it was postponed for a year and a half.
1:25.0	The conference couldn't be described as a resounding success,
1:28.0	although there were some things that an optimist could seize on as hopeful.
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