Long Reads: Thea Riofrancos on Biden, the Green New Deal, and the Climate Movement After COVID-19
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🗓️ 1 May 2021
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Summary
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. The guest for this episode is Thea Riofrancos.
Thea Riofrancos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College and author of Resource Radicals.
Read Thea's articles:
"We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/green-new-deal-coronavirus-stimulus
"Digging Free of Poverty" https://jacobinmag.com/2017/08/digging-free-of-poverty
And more here: https://jacobinmag.com/author/thea-riofrancos
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| 1:05.1 | Hello and you're very welcome to Long Reigns, a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth |
| 1:08.4 | at political topics and thinkers. |
| 1:10.6 | My name's Daniel Finn, and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be presenting |
| 1:14.6 | the show. |
| 1:15.6 | It's now more than a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to |
| 1:20.2 | be a global pandemic. |
| 1:21.4 | In multiple ways, the world has become a very different place, but the climate crisis |
| 1:26.2 | still casts a long shadow over global politics. |
| 1:29.3 | We're still haunted by the prospect of ecological breakdown. |
| 1:33.2 | As NBC pointed out in broadcast at the end of last year, 2020 was a year of climate extremes. |
| 1:40.0 | People are telling us this is the worst they've ever seen. |
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