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Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines

with some of today's best minds.

We're on vacation, but that doesn't mean we don't have a great show for you today.

The president of St. John's College, J. Walter Sterling, stops by to talk to us about why the classics matter, even more than ever. But first, we have Volt's newsletter, David Roberts, to talk about climate change and what it all means, David Roberts. I always want to call you Dr. Vultz. Welcome back. Hello. Good to be back.

Is it a bad time to write about climate? Not really. It's sort of like, you know how they're always saying like the media liked it when Trump came back?

Even though it's horrible for the country, it's good for them. There's a little bit of that going on right now. There's no shortage of things to write about.

No shortage of things going on, good and bad. I love something good, since we're all so

fucking depressed, though I did just eat four pieces of chocolate and drink five Diet Coke.

So I'm actually feeling pretty good, but give us something to not want to die over.

Well, the things that have been going on for the last decade are still going on, basically.

Solar and wind are getting cheaper and cheaper.

Batteries are getting cheaper and cheaper.

Business models are updating to help spread those things.

You know, electrification is proceeding like crazy. China is producing so much cheap

solar panels that they're decarbonizing their neighbors, Pakistan and Vietnam, Africa. Now they're

starting to import solar panels. So all the rest of the world, like literally the rest of the world is going forward.

It's going to be green before we are.

We are literally getting off a train that is just now sort of reached a speed that it's unstoppable.

It's unstoppable freight train towards clean electrification.

And right at this juncture, we're basically hopping off the train,

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