The Case for Climate Optimism (with Gavin Schmidt and Leah Stokes)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The United States is on the brink of passing a climate bill that could get us closer to making real progress against climate change than we’ve ever been before. Gavin Schmidt, climatologist and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, talks with Andy about the seemingly insurmountable number of climate catastrophes we’re currently experiencing and how the the Inflation Reduction Act may help finally rein in climate change. We also hear from Leah Stokes, a political scientist and environmental expert who helped craft some of the bill’s climate provisions. She explains how the bill would transition large parts of the economy from fossil fuels to clean energy and get us closer to cutting pollution in half.

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1:02.0	Welcome to the Bubble. I'm Andy Slavitt. Welcome to our Friday conversation. It's August 5th.
1:28.0	Today we're focusing on how we may be able to turn deep climate pessimism into actual climate optimism.
1:39.0	We'll see if we can. Look, I'm going to tell you personally, climate optimism has not been on my list of things I expected to feel
1:47.0	and I haven't felt in a long, long time.
1:49.0	And as I think, hopefully well known to most people is our efforts to keep global temperatures from rising more than one and a half degrees Celsius
2:00.0	is an enormously important target in the work that we need to do in the 2020s.
2:06.0	Has to get us half the way there. And I think up until very recently, we've known the goal.
2:13.0	I think we probably would feel better that we've said it ambitious goal. But boy, it's been a deeply pessimistic feeling to feel like we know it.
2:20.0	We see it. It's achievable and we can't possibly manage to get ourselves there. And yet, and yet sitting in front of the US Senate as we speak is legislation that purportedly can get us 80% of the way towards our goals here in the US
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