Green New Germany

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Introducing season 3 of The Impact! The 2020 candidates have some bold ideas to tackle some of our country's biggest problems, like climate change, the opioid crisis, and unaffordable health care. A lot of their proposals have been tried before, so, in a sense, the results are in. This season, The Impact has those stories: how the big ideas from 2020 candidates succeeded — or failed — in other places, or at other times. What can Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposal to fight the opioid crisis learn from what the US did to fight the AIDS epidemic? How did Germany — an industrial powerhouse that invented the automobile — manage to implement a Green New Deal? How did public health insurance change Taiwan? In this bonus episode Jillian and team fly to Germany to investigate a law that looks a lot like part of the Green New Deal some Democrats are proposing in the US. Subscribe to The Impact on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app to automatically get new episodes of the latest season each week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:16.8	I'm Matthew Glacias.
0:17.8	Today, there's going to be something a little bit special for you guys.
0:21.2	There's a new season, season three, right?
0:23.3	Of the impact.
0:24.8	It is out this past couple of weeks.
0:27.6	We're presenting one of the episodes that we think is going to be especially interesting
0:31.4	to Weeds readers.
0:32.6	The show has a new host, Jillian Weinberger.
0:34.6	Hello.
0:35.6	Hey, she is here today to talk a little bit about it.
0:38.3	What's this season all about?
0:39.8	So this season, we're looking at the big ideas from people who are running for president
0:44.0	in 2020.
0:45.5	And we're looking at how those ideas have worked in other places or at other times.
0:49.7	So the episode that we thought the Weeds listeners would really enjoy is about a lie in
0:55.0	Germany that looks like part of what the Green New Deal would do in the United States.
1:01.0	Cool.
1:02.0	So what's the law?
1:03.0	What's it called?
1:04.0	So it's called a feed in tariff, which is the law basically collects a fee from every
1:10.9	single German who uses electricity and it uses that money to pay above market rates
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