The Politics of Energy and Climate Change

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Center Director Bob Shrum joins a panel of energy experts and industry leaders to discuss the latest national policies advancing cleaner energy and curbing the effects of climate change, in commemoration of Earth Day.

Featuring:

Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife
Ted Bardacke - CEO, Clean Power Alliance
Ivan Penn - Energy Correspondent, New York Times
Jason Rondou - Director of Resource Planning, Development & Programs at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Aura Vasquez - Chair of Climate Action Committee, Sierra Club Los Angeles Chapter; Former Commissioner, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.3	We're going to start with a short video message from someone who could not be here because
0:35.3	he had a conflict, and then we will go into the panel,
0:38.1	and by then, presumably Ivan Penn will have arrived. Okay, let's show it.
0:43.2	Thank you very much. And let me thank Director Singh for the invitation to Southern California
0:48.3	University. Thank you very much. The Wrigley Center for Environmental Studies and the Center for the Political
0:56.1	Future. This conference on climate change is important, and I'm glad that I have a couple of
1:01.1	comments, not only to thank you for attending, but to welcome you. Right now, you see the
1:05.5	administration and others in Congress attempt to walk this tightrope. The reality of climate change and the climate crisis increases,
1:14.4	and so the focus needs to be on transition,
1:18.2	the focus needs to be on sustainability,
1:20.0	and the focus needs to be in equity.
1:21.6	But we see that we're confronting some pushback,
1:26.1	and that pushback is intense.
1:28.3	It is about denial to some extent, but not to the degree that it was.
1:32.3	It is about avoidance, not dealing with the issue at all, and somehow it will magically go away.
1:38.3	And the other one is delay.
1:41.3	And what you see, it's prominence in public policy, to delay decisions.
1:46.0	And the latest being this type rule, that we need energy independence, that we need energy
1:51.2	security, and that we must do all we can to deregulate and drill and extract from wherever
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