The Political Reality of Climate Action
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | 2021 began with a fresh start and high hopes for ambitious climate action, but how much will |
| 0:35.4 | actually get done? Climate 1 conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, but how much will actually get done? Climate One conversations feature all |
| 0:39.2 | aspects of the climate emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary, |
| 0:44.6 | people with power and those disempowered. I'm Greg Dalton. Joe Biden is tasking every corner of the |
| 0:53.7 | federal government to confront the climate crisis. |
| 0:56.4 | And while he face his fierce blowback from Republicans in Congress, there are signs that when it comes to conservative thought, the wind may be changing. |
| 1:04.3 | The polling that we've seen, the focus grouping that we've conducted shows that there's an ever-rising concern around climate change, |
| 1:12.6 | and even more so just a desire for Republicans to take a lead in clean energy policy |
| 1:17.9 | from all sectors of the party, even from the most conservative folks in the country. |
| 1:23.1 | Rich Powell heads up Clear Path, a right-leaning climate-focused think tank in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:28.5 | Later in the program, we'll hear more from Powell about the moderate Republican view of the |
| 1:32.6 | transition to clean energy. I'll also talk with Ben Geeman, energy reporter for Axios, about |
| 1:37.9 | pathways to getting some of Biden's climate agenda through a deeply divided Congress. |
| 1:43.0 | Democrats have been planning for this political |
| 1:44.8 | moment since they retook the House two years ago. Speaker Nancy Pelosi formed the bipartisan |
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