The Dig: The Green New Deal with Kate Aronoff

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🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Trump and fossil-fueled conservatives have pit working-class prosperity against environmentalism. This, of course, is incredibly dangerous. It's also premised on a misreading of environmental politics as having nothing to do with human well-being. But climate change, of course, threatens not only non-human nature but also the entirety of human life that is fundamentally dependent on it. Right now, coastal homes and cities, agriculture, wildfire-prone forests, and the water supply are all under threat. And so an ecologically sustainable response to this crisis must definitionally also be a socially and economically just one: something like a Green New Deal, a broad vision that climate activists and left insurgent politicians are uniting behind. Dan's guest today, climate reporter Kate Aronoff, is going to tell us all about it — as well as about the general state of domestic and global climate politics.

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1:33.6	The Trump administration and affiliated fossil fuel industry-aligned conservatives have
1:38.7	pit working-class prosperity against environmentalism. This of course is incredibly dangerous.
1:45.0	It's also premised on a misreading of environmental politics as having nothing to do with
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