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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

In my last episode, I spoke to a group of journalists, activists,

about how the left should respond to the climate crisis, and how that response for better or for worse will require a deep transformation in social and economic relations, and also in our built

environment and how we inhabit it.

In other words, eco-socialism is the only solution because we can't achieve real ecological

balance without socialism. And true socialism, socialism that delivers human liberation,

would be concretely impossible without ecological balance.

This episode is an interview that I did a few months back in Providence at Riff-Raff Books with

Elizabeth Rush, a creative nonfiction writer and the author of Rising Dispatches from the New

American Shore. Rush's book is a lyrical, mournful, but ultimately rather hopeful account of people dealing with the most tangible effects of global warming right now.

The rising seas that threaten the poorest people with dislocation, community destruction, and compounded destitution.

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