Steve Schmidt and Varshini Prakash on Disrupting Climate Politics
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's so much more to enjoy when you fly in Emirates economy. |
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| 0:25.5 | Fly Emirates, fly better. |
| 0:30.7 | How does a climate crisis figure in our national politics? |
| 0:34.8 | Climate One features energy companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, |
| 0:39.5 | the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton. |
| 0:48.4 | Fiery young people and historic wildfires have propelled climate disruption onto the agenda |
| 0:53.4 | during this presidential |
| 0:54.5 | election. Later in the show, we'll hear from Varshney Prakash, leader of the Sunrise |
| 0:58.8 | movement that has effectively moved Joe Biden and other Democrats toward bolder climate action |
| 1:03.9 | in line with the science. Republicans, for their part, are still denying or downplaying the |
| 1:09.0 | threat. As evidenced by Amy Coney Barrett's comment |
| 1:11.7 | during her confirmation hearing, that climate change is controversial. Not long ago, Democrats and |
| 1:18.6 | Republicans basically agreed on climate change. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger put |
| 1:23.4 | California at the head of the charge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Senator John McCain |
| 1:28.4 | crossed the aisle to co-sponsor three versions of the Climate Stewardship Act, none of which |
| 1:32.9 | made it through the Senate. Since then, climate change has become a partisan issue, despite the |
| 1:37.6 | fact that its effects touch the lives, jobs, and communities of every American. Political |
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