Carbon Footprints vs. Carbon Bootprints: Climate Change Class War / Matthew Huber

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Host Chuck Mertz speaks with with Geographer Matthew Huber to discuss how individualized focus on the purification of consumer choices divides the working class and depletes energy for collective organizing against the the Capitalist culprits profiting off the extraction of environmental resources. Matthew T. Huber is Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet published May 2022 on Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war Chuck also discusses the 26th Anniversary Listener Appreciation Party, reads this week in Rotten History, and new responses to the Question from Hell.

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0:00.0	That's the box cutters.
0:02.0	While I've not yet found my bearings, those it girls hit the ground, comparing the way I was to the way she was saying
0:15.8	I'm not scrou get a a minute. This is hell.
0:45.0	Lindsay because people keep asking what was the music you were playing before today's show.
0:52.0	Today's show?
1:01.2	Today's show right now. That was Fiona Apple. Oh, it was people keep asking this is the first I've heard. Yeah, people are always asking who the
1:04.3	What the music is and I never read their emails on the air about it because I'm not too sure if we're supposed to say what we're playing beforehand
1:08.0	due to copyright situation.
1:09.7	Is that a new Fiona apple?
1:11.2	That was her newest like from 2020. Okay. That came out. new cutters. I like that. That's very good.
1:23.0	Live from the United States where capitalism.
1:25.0	Whoops, wrong one.
1:26.0	Hey, look at this, I'm reading the wrong one.
1:28.0	Ah, ha, let's start all over.
1:29.0	Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell and I seriously doubt there has ever
1:38.6	been a greater fortune made from a greater crime than climate change.
1:42.7	But that's not how we look at climate change.
1:45.5	Far too often, those on the left
1:47.7	are either bogged down in believing science and advocating for it in arguments on social media platforms
1:56.6	or they're busying themselves with consuming greener and consuming less but
2:01.0	doing either as our guest today argues, is an acquiescence to neoliberalism
2:07.0	and the politics of austerity and the only real way to save the planet from destruction
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