Late Night Cram: Green New Deal (ft. Rhiana Gunn-Wright)

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Late Night supervising producer Henry Melcher and A Closer Look supervising writer Sal Gentile talk to Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the policy director for New Consensus, about the Green New Deal.

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0:00.0	Hey, Sal.
0:01.0	Hey, Henry.
0:10.0	This was such a fun podcast to record.
0:12.4	This was such an interesting topic.
0:13.4	It was awesome.
0:14.4	Yeah.
0:15.4	We talked to Rihanna Gunnwright, who is the policy director for New Consensus, which is
0:18.4	a think tank that worked on the Green New Deal.
0:21.0	And we Skype with her from DC, and she kind of laid out how they created the Green New
0:25.0	Deal and how it's not just an environmental plan to decarbonize the country.
0:28.7	It also calls for economic justice, racial justice.
0:31.5	It's a complete kind of transformation of the country, and she kind of gave us a behind-the-scenes
0:35.0	look at how it all came together and where it goes from here.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:38.7	I genuinely learned so much.
0:39.8	So much.
0:40.8	Yeah.
0:41.8	And she's great at explaining both some of the things that are somewhat easier to tackle
0:46.8	in the short term and also some of the long-term challenges and how we go about tackling
0:50.9	those.
0:51.9	She was fantastic.
0:52.9	Super funny, too.
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