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The Hartmann Report

Can Changing our Food Really Save the Environment and Democracy?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Frances Moore Lappe joins Thom to share how we can eat better and save democracy and the planet by improving our diets. Lappe is an Activist / Author or co-author of over 20 books including Diet for a Small Planet (50th anniversary edition). Also electric plane startup Heart Aerospace races to decarbonise short-haul flights. Plus Norway taxes cow-farts to combat climate change.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.4

And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, and justice believers in peace freedom in

0:21.9

the american way tom harman here with you we're going to do a deep dive a conversation

0:26.3

with great minds with francis morlape it's a fifty year anniversary of her book diet

0:31.2

for a small planet there's a new edition out and she does a deep dive not just into

0:35.5

diet but also into politics or into democracy

0:39.3

into you know the consequences of how we eat for the planet as well as for our bodies

0:44.3

and i think you're going to find that an absolutely fascinating conversation and also

0:49.3

pardon me let me just here a sip of water

0:53.3

there we go.

0:55.9

This is an electric airplane.

0:58.7

It's a Swedish aviation company, and Hart is the name of the company.

1:04.5

Their experimental X-1 is going to be testing.

1:09.2

They're going to be testing this in Plattsburgh International Airport,

1:12.5

up in New York, upstate New York, Plattsburgh.

1:15.4

It's a 30-seat hybrid electric regional passenger jet.

1:19.6

It can fly right now, currently, with four electric propeller motors.

1:25.9

It can fly 30 passengers, 124 miles right now on pure electric

1:32.0

power, and it recharges in 30 minutes. And then once it's at altitude and, what is it,

1:39.8

100, 200 kilometers, 124 miles, then they kick on an electric generator that's in the back of the plane that

1:47.3

recharges the batteries and provides energy to the propellers.

1:51.1

And that extends its range to 250 miles.

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