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Climate & Democracy with Jamie Raskin, Heather McGhee and Rebecca Willis

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Climate One

Social Sciences, News Commentary, Science, Earth Sciences, News

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) took the national spotlight as the lead manager for the second impeachment trial of the former president. As a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he has grilled fossil fuel executives on the industry’s long history of intentionally misleading the public. And as a constitutional law professor, he has offered deep insight into the connections between an informed citizenry and a robust democracy. At a time when many Americans doubt Congress’s ability to get anything done, what are the government’s strongest levers for climate action? And what are the connections between climate and democracy? This story is part of ‘Climate & Democracy,’ a series from the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Guests: Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative, Maryland’s 8th Congressional District  Heather McGhee, Board Chair, Color of Change; author, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Rebecca Willis, Professor, Lancaster University; author, Too Hot to Handle? The Democratic Challenge of Climate Change Visit our website for show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6

Our climate and our democratic systems are under threat.

0:35.6

We have to save the democracy in order to save the climate and save our species.

0:41.3

For some people, progress on climate, like many other things, is a zero-sum game.

0:47.3

In the United States, that belief is often racially tinged.

0:51.3

The belief is that there's only so much to go around, and what is good for an other is bad for us.

1:02.5

And the zero-sum mentality can be hard to escape.

1:06.0

The worst thing that can happen on climate is that we get into this false dichotomy of a healthy economy versus

1:14.8

climate action. Protecting climate and democracy up next on Climate One.

1:24.0

As a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Congressman Jamie Raskin has grilled

1:29.3

fossil fuel executives on the industry's long history of intentionally misleading the public.

1:35.0

As a former constitutional law professor, he's offered deep insight into the connections between

1:40.0

an informed citizenry and a robust democracy. Congressman Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, was the lead manager for the second impeachment trial of the former president.

1:50.0

Now, as Russia's war against Ukraine rages on, funded by its fossil fuel exports, we see clear ties between governance and climate action.

2:00.0

Raskin says democratic governments around the world need to unite.

2:04.7

All of the autocrats and dictators and kleptocrats of the world have found each other

2:10.9

grouped around the petro states and the exploitation of the earth and the destruction of our ecosystem

2:23.6

by sticking to the old carbon model that's choking off the planet.

2:30.6

And so the democratic movements and peoples and governments of the world have got to get together

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