Biden's Climate Plan Could Reshape America (Live w/ Julian NoiseCat)
A Matter of Degrees
Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We're back with another live edition of the show! So much is happening in the Biden era. We didn't want to wait until our second season to unpack all the activity.
This week, we feature a conversation with Julian Brave NoiseCat that we recorded at the Crosscut Festival.
Julian is a writer, activist, and policy expert with a deep understanding of Washington climate politics. Julian was actually a guest correspondent in season one — go episode 7 from our first season: "Changing Woman: One Navajo's Fight for a Just Transition."
The protagonist of amazing episode, Wahleah Johns, is now working in the Biden Administration as a senior official at the Department of Energy!
Julian is the Vice President of Policy & Strategy at the think tank Data For Progress and a Fellow at the Type Media Center. He's also a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Vox, Vice and many other outlets.
In this episode, we look at all the action happening in Washington on climate change: big-name hires, big-ticket policies, and the potential high-impact outcomes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a matter of degrees. Stories for the Climate Curious. I'm Dr. Leah Stokes. And I'm Dr. Catherine |
| 0:07.2 | Wilkinson. And I'm happy to see you, Leah. We're back, aren't we? We're just doing a lot of these |
| 0:13.7 | live episodes, hey, Catherine? You can't get rid of us, actually, it turns out. Well, there's so |
| 0:20.1 | much to talk about. We couldn't just wait until our next season drops. We had to kind of get into it turns out. Well, there's so much to talk about. |
| 0:23.0 | We couldn't just wait until our next season drops. |
| 0:24.4 | We had to kind of get into it. This is true. |
| 0:25.9 | And so we are back with this second live episode of the show. |
| 0:29.9 | And this one is focusing on domestic policy as kind of a counterpart to our last |
| 0:37.4 | conversation about global climate negotiations |
| 0:40.3 | with Mary Robinson. And I know our listeners are probably super curious about all the news |
| 0:46.1 | that's been coming out of the administration, you know, what's going on in Congress, on climate. |
| 0:50.7 | And so we wanted to look at what's going on with federal policy, trying to find |
| 0:56.5 | some nuggets of hope and possibility and what it's going to mean for the planet. Yeah, I do like a hope |
| 1:01.8 | nugget, especially dipped in some kind of good sauce. I'm just thinking more like a hope nugget is |
| 1:07.8 | like chocolate with like pecans or pecans. And some people say, you know, caramel. Like, that's a hope nugget is like chocolate with like pecans or pecans as some people say you know |
| 1:12.5 | caramel like that's what a hope nugget is just like chocolate deliciousness no yeah yours are gonna |
| 1:18.9 | have pecans and caramel and mine's going to have pecans and caramel |
| 1:24.5 | oh okay well some of us are canadian okay okay Carmel. Oh, okay. |
| 1:29.0 | Well, some of us are Canadian. Okay. |
| 1:33.5 | So we were super stoked for this episode to have Julian Brave Noise Cat back with us. |
| 1:41.5 | Those who listen to season one, you know that Julian is a writer, |
| 1:46.5 | activist, policy expert. He's got a deep understanding of Washington climate politics. And |
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