The Climate Campaign with Gov. Jay Inslee

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Gov. Jay Inslee is running a presidential campaign unlike any other. The Washington governor is basing his run on the fundamental organizing premise that the climate crisis is more important than anything else. It’s a unique strategy that comes at a time when more and more people are recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis. But while climate is moving up on the list of issues voters care about, Gov. Inslee is making the case that it’s not just ‘an issue – it’s ‘the issue’. RELATED READING Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Gov. Jay Inslee Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman Decision Makers YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE The Uninhabitable Earth with David Wallace-Wells (March 5) The Wicked Problem of Climate Change with Andrew Revkin (Aug 14, 2018)

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0:00.0	Look, there's only one party that has the possibility of saving humanity here.
0:04.3	It's a Democratic party and it would be a good thing to brand our party.
0:08.4	It's so sad.
0:09.1	It cares about this.
0:10.0	It's so sad that that is like a not hyperbolic statement.
0:16.5	Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:20.8	Well, here I am with doing an intro because the feedback from last episode was very pro intro.
0:26.8	So here we go back at it back in 2004, before it was a full-time writer, it was 25 years old,
0:33.6	and I was very invested in the election that year, which was George W. Bush running for
0:38.9	re-electioning as John Kerry.
0:40.2	I took two months, almost three months, and I went to work for the League of Conservation Voters,
0:45.1	which was operating a field program in Dane County, which the county around Madison,
0:49.7	was constant.
0:50.8	Madison, obviously, a very liberal place, but the suburbs around it are sort of swing year.
0:55.6	And I was knocking on doors there, trying to persuade persuadable voters to vote for
1:02.7	John Kerry and not George W. Bush.
1:04.9	And when I was done with that endeavor, I wrote an article for the New Republic,
1:07.9	which we'll link to on the website, still up there on the internet, which was about some of the
1:11.4	things I learned while I was talking to undecided voters.
1:14.2	And one of the things that was really interesting to me was that they didn't have a very crystal
1:18.8	clear concept of issues and what an issue was.
1:22.1	And it was striking to me, like, if you're a political junkie and someone said,
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