Roosevelt's New Deal remade America, and millions want a green New Deal to do it again.

All great American programs, everything from the great society to the New Deal, started with a vision for our future.

And to get to the first New Deal took massive strikes.

I think we're seeing the beginning of that realization.

It's a watermelon.

Green on the outside, deep, deep red communist on the inside.

Roosevelt himself never had any interest in challenging basic elements of a capitalist economy.

Interest groups who are allied with fossil fuels are kind of driving a wedge between what the public wants on climate change

and what our politicians and their staff think that the public wants.

I don't want you to listen to me.

I want you to listen to the scientists.

There's more coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And this is the sound of Foley Square in downtown Manhattan Friday, not far from our offices,

the epicenter of a worldwide climate strike led in probably, perhaps, but solidly, by millions of students.

We want change.

We want change. We want change!

We want change!

The 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Tunberg,

who sailed across the Atlantic

to ramp up pressure ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit,

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