The populist threat to climate action
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The transition to our clean energy economy is already underway. But progress on climate change may slow down as climate populism on the far right is taking root in developed economies. We’ll explain why cheaper, green technologies might be the antidote. Meanwhile, in Arizona, ballooning costs for a school voucher program triggered a state budget crisis. Plus, NASA blasted a Missy Elliot song all the way to Venus at the speed of light!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Populist opposition is threatening progress on climate change” from the Peterson Institute for International Economics
- “School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.” from ProPublica
- “A Missy Elliott Song Travels to Venus at the Speed of Light” from The New York Times
- “Paris mayor swims in Seine ahead of Olympic Games opening” from Axios
- “Pressed about jumping into Baltimore Harbor, Mayor Scott and others admit it’s still unsafe and illegal outside of organized events” from Baltimore Brew
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| 0:27.0 | Hello everyone |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Kimberly Adams |
| 0:31.0 | welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Amy Scott in for Ky Rizdahl. Thank you for joining us on this Wednesday. |
| 0:40.5 | It is July 17th. |
| 0:42.3 | Today we're going to do what we usually do. It is July 17th. |
| 0:47.0 | Today we're going to do what we usually do, some news and some smiles. Let's start with the news. Amy, what you got? |
| 0:50.0 | All right. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, there's been a lot of talk about populism this week after |
| 0:55.0 | former President Trump named J.D. Vance as his running mate. The Republican |
| 0:59.8 | senator from Ohio has positioned himself as pro-blue-collar, anti-elite, and he's taken some |
| 1:07.0 | stances that break with traditional party ideology, like praising Lena Khan's aggressive antitrust enforcement, |
| 1:16.1 | working with progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren |
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