Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Red states versus blue states. |
| 0:05.6 | When it comes to projecting our environment, are we really two different Americas? |
| 0:10.4 | Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton. |
| 0:29.5 | Thank you. audience and hosted by Greg Dalton. When the fracking industry came to her Pennsylvania community, Stacey Haney felt good about signing |
| 0:34.5 | over the rights to use her family farm. |
| 0:36.9 | To Stacy, it felt patriotic. |
| 0:39.4 | Her father was a Vietnam combat bet, and she really wanted to keep American troops out of |
| 0:44.5 | harm's way, out of foreign entanglements over oil. So she thought that she was really doing her duty |
| 0:50.0 | by signing this lease. What happened to Stacy's family as a result turned her world upside down. |
| 1:01.5 | New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold tells their story in her new book, Amity and Prosperity, |
| 1:06.5 | One Family and the Fracturing of America. |
| 1:09.5 | Spending time in this Appalachian community, says Griswold, |
| 1:12.6 | opened her eyes to a side of America that many don't know and don't bother to understand. |
| 1:17.6 | And we know what our stereotypes are, and we feed them. |
| 1:20.6 | You know, reporters go out for a day to Trump country. |
| 1:22.6 | Sociologist Arlie Hochschild also wanted to get past the stereotypes. |
| 1:26.6 | That led her to leave her |
| 1:28.6 | Berkeley bubble behind to spend five years reporting on the conservative community of Bayoucorn, Louisiana. |
| 1:34.8 | When I went there, I told him, hey, I'm from Berkeley, California. Interested the Tea Party. He said, |
| 1:42.1 | Berkeley, so y'all a communist, right? Hokeshild's book, Strangers in the Tea Party. He said, Berkeley, so y'all a communist, right? |
| 1:46.7 | Hokeshild's book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Anger and Mourning on the American Right, |
| 1:51.3 | tells the story of a community that's been betrayed by the promise of prosperity and by a government that has let them down. |
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