This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman. We are in a climate emergency. Extreme flooding

in Europe, wildfires and extreme heat in the American West, hurricanes in the Caribbean,

and more. And more and more often we hear the qualifier extreme, followed by, this

is a once in a 500 years or once in a thousand year event. The climate crisis can no longer

be ignored. As areas become unlivable, we see population dislocation and migration,

species extinction and widespread disease. And these effects have led to social unrest

and demands for systemic responses. We are fortunate to have Melissa Figueroa and

Ali Metters night with us to discuss the recent leaked IPCC or intergovernmental panel on

climate changes, sixth assessment report, and its dire consequences for the planet, as

well as to discuss their own work on climate catastrophe mitigation, all this when our

program returns in just a moment.

This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman and very, very pleased to have my producer director,

engineer and almost everything else, extraordinaire, Melissa Figueroa, and Ali Metters night back

with us. I can't think of two better people to have here to discuss the ongoing climate

emergency. So we're going to do most of that today. And I should just begin by saying

we are in a widely recognized climate emergency. In fact, the only climate deniers remaining,

it seems, are those who benefit from its denial. And that means what, Republican official

them, their base, and their backers, the fossil fuel industry captains. As of this moment,

Europe is in the midst of extreme flooding characterized by meteorologists in Germany,

as floods not seen in 500 to 1,000 years. Those are words that we've been hearing for

several years now, to describe other manifestations of the climate crisis like wildfires throughout

the American West and intense hurricanes in the Caribbean. And both Ali and Melissa are

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