Climate Change Politics & Policy after Paris

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jay received so much listener feedback on our discussion of President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord (in episode 102) that they decided to do this special follow-up. In it, they cover the 'We Are Still In' movement, what states - especially California - are doing, whether or not Jay believes human activity is responsible for climate change, and why Mike wants us to significantly slow emissions today, whereas Jay feels that we're better off growing the economy and waiting for what he believes will be better and cheaper emission control and climate change mitigation technology in the future. They also respond to listener comments.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.4	Music Welcome to the politics, guys.
0:47.0	I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:54.4	This week, instead of an interview, Jay and I are doing a special show on the politics and
0:58.9	policy of climate change in the aftermath of President Trump's decision to pull the United
1:03.5	States out of the Paris Climate Accord.
1:05.9	Now, the withdrawal won't take full effect until November 4th, 2020. And, well, my hope, and one that I know
1:12.4	was shared by, well, countless people in the United States and around the world is that
1:16.8	the day before that, Americans will elect a new president who's fully committed to the
1:22.3	Paris Accord and we'll be able to, you know, get back and get back in and start taking
1:26.7	real steps to try to minimize
1:28.4	what may very well be a global catastrophe for future generations. Now, there was a lot of
1:35.2	very strong listener reaction to our discussion of the Paris Accord decision, including
1:39.9	several listeners who said that after hearing what we had to say, they were unsubscribing from the show.
1:46.1	No.
1:46.9	Yeah.
1:47.5	You know, we always hate to see people go.
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