Red Hot Take: “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming”
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This is the debut episode of a new Rev Left Radio sub-series called Red Hot Takes, where Breht breaks down and analyzes current events, new works, or breaking news in a monologue format.
In this episode, Breht analyzes the popular new book on Climate Change by journalist David Wallace-Wells entitled "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" from a Marxist perspective.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the first ever episode of Red Hot Takes. |
| 0:26.9 | This is an expansion of RevLeft Radio where I, your trust-of-host, will take a new story, |
| 0:31.1 | a current event, or new work, summarize it and then deconstruct it in order to analyze |
| 0:35.5 | its contents from a Marxist perspective. |
| 0:38.2 | Since we do not have guests for these Red Hot Takes episodes, they will be shorter than |
| 0:41.9 | normal RevLeft episodes and they will be recorded in both audio podcast form as well |
| 0:46.6 | as video form eventually. |
| 0:48.5 | This will not affect in any way the normal RevLeft Radio interview episodes. |
| 0:52.3 | This is just adding another component to the show, not taking anything away. |
| 0:56.3 | We hope you enjoyed this new expansion of RevLeft and we want to thank all of our patrons |
| 1:00.2 | who support the show with their hard-earned money. |
| 1:02.3 | Without them, there is no RevLeft Radio and there certainly is no expansion of the show |
| 1:06.0 | like you are seeing now. |
| 1:07.3 | So from the bottom of our little red hearts, thank you. |
| 1:10.1 | Now let's get into the show. |
| 1:12.7 | For this debut episode of Red Hot Takes, I read the brand new book which just came out |
| 1:16.7 | last month on climate change by David Wallace Wells entitled The Uninhabitable Earth, Life |
| 1:22.1 | After Warming. |
| 1:23.4 | What makes this book different from many others like it and what makes it worth reading |
| 1:26.4 | and analyzing is that one, it's totally up to date encompassing all the newest scientific |
| 1:31.2 | discoveries through 2018. |
| 1:32.9 | Two, it openly and honestly explores the implications of climate change with no sense |
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