Behind the News: Green New Dead End? w/ Josh Mason

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Economist Josh Mason of John Jay College (and author of a recent Jacobin article, written in response to a Dylan Riley article for New Left Review's website) on how we can save the climate before we get to overthrowing capitalism. Then Jen Duggan of the Environmental Integrity Initiative discusses a lawsuit to get the EPA to enforce the Clean Water Act.

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	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henwood.
0:36.0	The usual two guests today, though in unusual proportions.
0:39.0	The economist Josh Mason will talk about the Green New Deal
0:42.0	and its weak descendant, the Inflation Reduction Act.
0:45.0	And Jen Dougen will talk about a lawsuit against the EPA
0:48.0	to get it to enforce the Clean Water Act,
0:50.0	which it hasn't been doing properly for decades.
0:52.0	Before that, I want to highlight a phrase tweeted by SpaceX,
0:56.0	Elon Musk's outfit, when their rocket blew up minutes after takeoff.
0:59.0	According to SpaceX, it didn't actually blow up.
1:02.0	There was a rapid, unscheduled disassembly.
1:05.0	This is one of the best phrases introduced into the language
1:07.0	and stoned the Lillos Airborne Toxic Event.
1:11.0	And now onto a big question.
1:13.0	Can we tackle the climate crisis without the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism?
1:17.0	The Inflation Reduction Act, the IRA, passed in August 2022,
1:21.0	is an enormous bill whose inflation-fighting capacities may be exaggerated,
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