Should We Be Optimistic or Pessimistic About the Future?

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🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The final month of 2015 was one of the best in recent memory for climate action. The world's carbon emissions dipped for the first time during a period of economic growth. The Paris climate talks ended with a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. And America extended key tax credits for renewables that will ensure strong growth in the years ahead. Some are cheering. But others are not so sure we should be optimistic. Brad Plumer, a senior editor at Vox, shares the cautious view on these developments. In this week's show, we'll talk with Plumer about the hard work that comes after Paris if world leaders are serious about decarbonizing the global economy. Later in the show, we'll talk with GTM Senior Reporter Julia Pyper about how electric cars and autonomous vehicles are playing into the Consumer Electronics Show. We'll wrap up with a discussion about Nevada's controversial decision to slash net metering for all solar customers in the state. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of January 7th, should we be optimistic or pessimistic
0:19.8	about the future?
0:21.1	Brad Plumer of Vox joins us to help answer. Then the Consumer Electronics Show
0:25.8	is starting to become an auto show. We'll summarize the latest on connected cars and then
0:31.2	we'll turn our focus to Nevada where things are getting pretty messy for
0:34.2	solar, regulators killed net metering there in December, solar companies are laying off workers,
0:39.4	and the governor is caught in the middle. I'm Stephen Lacy in Washington, D.C.
0:43.6	Catherine Hamilton and Jiggershaw join me as always to discuss.
0:47.1	Catherine's with 38 North Solutions, also in Washington. She's coming to us from
0:52.4	her new digs. You just moved there this week, right?
0:55.2	Yeah, we're in 1776, which is the incubator in Northwest DC on 15th Street, and it's really cool.
1:02.3	Great place to be. Are you sitting on a cardboard
1:04.3	box right now? No, no although a lot of the tables are made of old doors which are
1:09.1	it's pretty cool. Jiggershaw is with Generate Capital in San Francisco this week.
1:15.4	So back in New York, you didn't like move your place unexpectedly or anything.
1:19.9	You're still living in the same place?
1:22.1	No, I didn't. I'm't. I'm just curious whether Catherine's security is better or worse at 1776.
1:28.1	I think last time we went to her building, we had to have our eyeball scanned.
1:31.8	Yeah, it was like a biometric system.
1:33.3	It was crazy.
1:34.5	Yeah, it's way better.
1:35.5	I just have a little card that says 1776 and they let me write in.
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