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Breaking Through: A Year of Climate Conversations

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Climate One

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, racial justice awakening, and presidential election. For the first time ever, climate change galvanized a record number of voters to elect Joe Biden to the Presidency. How has the focus on climate shifted in a year shaped by multiple social and economic crises? Join us for a look back on a year of climate conversations like no other. Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests (in order of appearance): Justin Worland, Senior Climate Correspondent, TIME Katharine Wilkinson, Vice President, Project Drawdown Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Marine Biologist; co-author, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Darryl Molina Sarmiento, Executive Director, Communities for a Better Environment Kevin de Léon, Los Angeles City Councillor; Former President, California State Senate Susan Clayton, Professor of Psychology; Chair of Environmental Studies, College of Wooster Peter Atwater, Adjunct Professor of Economics, College of William & Mary Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director of The Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health Amy Jaffe, Director, Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations Kathleen Day, Finance Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, North America Director, 350.org Gina McCarthy, President, NRDC Action Fund; Former Administrator, US EPA Saul Griffith, Founder and Chief Scientist, Otherlab Chase Purdy, Author, Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food. Sophie Egan, Author, How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet Hui He, China Regional Director, International Council on Clean Transportation Colin McKerracher, Head of Transport Analysis, BloombergNEF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary.

0:24.5

I'm Greg Dalton.

0:25.6

On this special episode, we'll look back at the climate stories of 2020 by listening to excerpts from a year of climate conversations.

0:34.5

With President-elect Joe Biden building a team of climate veterans, including John Kerry,

0:39.5

the effort to decouple economic growth from carbon pollution is in a very different place

0:44.6

than it was when the year began.

0:46.3

For the first time ever, we'll have a presidential envoy on climate.

0:51.0

Mr. President-elect and Vice President-elect Harris, I look forward to getting to work.

0:56.8

Shortly after the election, Time senior climate correspondent Justin Warland retweeted,

1:01.8

quote, where the virus was the worst, voters supported Trump the most.

1:06.5

Worland further pondered whether, as climate change worsens, those affected will support leaders who offer

1:11.9

climate solutions or those who deny there's a problem. There's a good question about whether

1:17.3

people are going to look for the easy answer when it comes to climate change or whether they're

1:21.6

going to look for really substantive solutions. And so this connection just got me thinking.

1:29.6

And, you know, it is pretty clear.

1:36.0

You look at places like South Florida, which voted for Trump more so in 2020 than in 2016,

1:43.4

despite the growing concern or evidence of trouble with regard to climate. So I just, I think about this question a lot. and I think a lot about whether climate change is going to fuel continued political uncertainty,

1:49.8

whether it's actually going to lead to solutions.

1:53.7

You write about climate and race.

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