Swamp Notes: Biden’s climate agenda runs out of steam
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Americans have inflation and foreign policy on their minds this election. That means that President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate achievements aren’t resonating with voters – especially young voters – the way his administration expected. The FT’s US climate reporter, Aime Williams, and Washington bureau chief, James Politi, join this week’s Swamp Notes podcast to explain why.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:08.0 | At equinore dot-co. UK. |
| 0:10.0 | If President Joe Biden's going to win in November, he needs the support of young voters. |
| 0:16.0 | Climate change has typically been a big rally and cry for them. |
| 0:20.0 | And Biden's done a lot to address it during his time in office. |
| 0:23.4 | But will it be enough to get young voters out to the polls? |
| 0:26.8 | The F.T.'s Amy Williams drove down to the swing state of North Carolina to find out. |
| 0:31.4 | So I went to two universities in Raleigh, |
| 0:36.0 | which is part of North Carolina's research triangle, |
| 0:39.0 | so quite a few colleges and universities in a very small area. |
| 0:43.4 | One of them was North Carolina State University. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm standing outside the Talley Student Union. |
| 0:49.3 | Temperatures close to 90 degrees here. |
| 0:51.8 | There are a lot of students milling about, eating snacks, and just generally enjoying the sunshine. |
| 0:58.1 | A lot of the students they told me that climate change was one of their top concerns. |
| 1:03.0 | I think it's a very pressing issue. |
| 1:07.0 | If we don't do something right now, |
| 1:08.0 | then it's going to end everything. |
| 1:10.0 | We're kind of at a point where it's a ticking clock and I'd like to see more action from a collective. |
| 1:14.4 | But they couldn't tell me what Joe Biden had done to tackle climate change. |
| 1:18.6 | One of them was Cameron, she's a biology major and she told me that although climate change was a huge problem |
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