It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman.

Hello David. Hello everybody. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello,

program is going to challenge the intelligence of our very intelligent audience.

That is correct and we're going to kick off by telling you that, well, if you don't know by now, Northern California is on fire.

A lot of climate change action is stalled during the pandemic, but climate change hasn't stopped because of coronavirus.

In fact, it's exacerbating our other crises.

Our first guest, Robert H. Frank, has some ideas

to help with the climate crisis.

He says that peer pressure is the most powerful influencer and

social pressures to live bigger have accelerated climate change. But he has ideas about

how to use peer pressure as a force for positive change. He wrote a book about this called

Under the Influence, Putting Peer Pressure to Work. In it he applies the lessons we have learned from how

as a culture we were able to reduce dramatically the number of people who

smoke cigarettes to how we can reduce our carbon emissions. We'll hear more about that in the first

part of our show today. In the second part we'll talk about coronavirus and this is

actually some good news for a change. There might be a solution to this crisis

finally and it will only cost between one and five dollars a day per person.

The proposed solution is to have cheap at-home frequent COVID tests.

The idea being that everyone in the US would take a test every day and we could catch

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