Biden’s Climate Change Plan and Europe’s Super League
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Will President Biden’s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent in the next decade make a real difference? Rebecca , Rawi , and Felix discuss the parts of the plan that are most likely to be implemented and how U.S. climate change policy will influence global efforts to slow climate change. Plus, they debate why the idea for a European soccer Super League failed in spectacular fashion.
Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:
- Premier League
- Josquin des Préz
- “Red Herring” (Radiolab, WNYC)
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| 0:44.0 | Hello everyone. You're listening to after hours. I'm Felix. I'm Rebecca. I'm Rally. |
| 0:49.0 | Did you guys watch the Oscars? Wait, when were the Oscars? Wait, what are the Oscars? |
| 0:55.0 | See, I knew we're in good company. I think no one watched. Yeah. It must be so |
| 1:01.0 | disappointing. It must feel very alarming. I feel that way as a professor sometimes. Like, |
| 1:05.0 | I'm just talking and nobody's here. Am I teaching? Yes. Are you a faculty member |
| 1:10.0 | without an audience? Maybe not. So we're not going to be a source of inspiration |
| 1:15.0 | or information for our listeners, but we did bring topics. We brought that. That's |
| 1:19.0 | the good news. So I would like to talk about global climate change and the carbon |
| 1:26.0 | emissions plan of the Biden administration. I think that's a great topic. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:30.0 | Did you bring a topic also? Yeah, that's so important, but I bought soccer. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, we're going to call it soccer football during this episode. We should just |
| 1:38.0 | decide now and then stick with it. Football? Football's fine. It'll be very confusing |
| 1:44.0 | to everyone. Okay, so I bought football because I want to understand what happened |
| 1:50.0 | with this super league and what's with football in the first place. That's an important |
| 1:55.0 | part of the conversation. That seems very important. Two fabulous topics. |
| 2:04.0 | So President Biden announced that the United States would slash carbon emissions by |
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