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Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Russ Feingold became a household name co-authoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly known as McCain-Feingold. It’s the only major piece of campaign finance reform legislation passed into law in decades. Today he is using his experience navigating the levers of power to tackle alarming biodiversity loss and the worsening climate crisis. Feingold believes, “The threats posed to people from the destruction of nature are just as serious as those posed by climate change.”  Guests:  Russ Feingold, President of the American Constitution Society, former Senator from Wisconsin Jean Su, Energy Justice Director and Senior Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity Dan Farber, Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment, University of California, Berkeley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.4

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. A functional democracy is vital to ameliorating the climate crisis. What happens when the right to vote comes under attack?

0:38.9

If you're able to repress the vote in a way that people that are committed to these issues

0:43.7

can't get elected and you keep electing a majority in state legislatures and in Congress that is

0:49.7

totally beholden to the fossil fuel industry, you won't get anywhere.

0:56.6

If Congress won't act, can the president?

1:00.6

The president has a tremendous amount of executive powers.

1:06.0

So some of those are emergency powers, but many of those are actually ordinary powers.

1:12.1

He can actually take many steps in banning fossil fuel leasing or at the very least reducing the rate at which it's happening right now. Biodiversity, climate and the courts. Up next on Climate

1:18.5

One. Historically, the United States has been the world's biggest carbon emitter.

1:29.3

That legacy puts a certain onus on the U.S. to be the world leader in addressing the climate crisis.

1:35.1

In order to do that, our elected representatives need to make climate a priority.

1:39.7

Yet at the same time, voting rights are being restricted for the very communities most affected

1:44.8

by the climate crisis, blacks, indigenous Americans, and people of color.

1:50.1

Climate issues are also being decided by the courts, where ordinary citizens have much

1:54.2

less direct impact.

1:55.6

When so many levers of power are pulled in the wrong direction, can a broken democracy heal a broken

2:02.6

climate?

2:04.8

While serving as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold became a household name by

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