Socialist Solutions: Climate Change Ravages the Planet
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Despite the horrendous heat wave that’s been hitting Europe and parts of the US, the Biden administration has yet to take truly meaningful action, and reports of his possible announcements this week don’t appear to meet the gravity of the climate crisis. What could the government be doing and how do we get there?
Brian is joined by Tina Landis, an organizer in the environmental and social justice movements and the author of the book Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism, which she is currently on tour nationwide to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | A record-breaking heat wave swept Europe, leaving around 2,000 people dead as of last weekend |
| 0:09.1 | and yet another climate change-induced disaster. |
| 0:13.5 | But the U.S. government is still stubbornly refusing to take action. |
| 0:18.0 | The Biden administration is resisting calls to declare a climate emergency and unlock powerful |
| 0:24.6 | new executive authorities. And the Democratic Party-controlled Congress has been unable or unwilling to |
| 0:32.0 | agree on any new measures. We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:39.3 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only |
| 0:45.3 | realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. If you enjoy our show, |
| 1:15.7 | please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com forward slash the socialist program |
| 1:23.2 | and subscribing. We are an independent show. We thank you for your support. We can do the show |
| 1:29.8 | with you. We can't do it without you. Today we're talking to Tina Landis. Tina is an organizer |
| 1:36.1 | in the environmental and social justice movements. She's also the author of a book, a recent book, |
| 1:43.0 | Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism. Tina is currently |
| 1:47.0 | on a nationwide book tour. Tina Landis, welcome to the Socialist Program. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:53.4 | Thank you for joining. I mean, last week, all the headlines, Tina, were Europe is on fire. I mean, literally on fire. A heat wave, |
| 2:04.2 | Britain, Great Britain, London experienced the hottest temperatures in the last, I don't know, |
| 2:10.9 | maybe forever. And yet, when you looked at the headlines, they were sort of this weird |
| 2:16.4 | juxtaposition. Emergency, |
| 2:19.3 | emergency, emergency. And then Congress won't do anything. Biden's hands are tied. I'm looking at |
| 2:27.0 | the New York Times front page from last Thursday. The front page, GOP strategy for climate action is to delay it. And then weirdly, |
| 2:38.6 | the subtitle, no longer in denial, but fearful for the economy, as if the Republicans aren't |
| 2:45.6 | doing anything or the Democrats aren't doing anything because they're really worried about the economy as opposed |
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