Weekends: Against Lifestyle Environmentalism w/ Matt Huber

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Jacobin contributor Matt Huber joins Weekends to explain why appeals to "science" and "truth" and individual lifestyle changes won’t be enough to halt climate change or win a majority of workers over to an environmental movement. Any successful program to counter climate change must be rooted in a working class constituency, he argues. Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from August 27, 2021.

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome to Weekends with Anacasparian and Nando Vila coming in with
0:21.3	the funky hits. You know you get excited every time you hear that theme song.
0:25.3	I love it. It gets me going baby. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I think it's the fade. We have a fade now.
0:33.8	We do. We do. After calling them out by name over the last few episodes,
0:39.2	Kale, he listens to the people everybody. He does. He does. So Kale will be joining us
0:46.5	later in the show as we respond to your comments and your super chats. So I'm going to remind
0:52.0	you throughout the show today. Please send in any comments, any you know questions you might have
0:57.3	either about our thoughts or about the stories we're covering. We've got a pretty diverse show today.
1:02.3	You know last week's show was very Afghanistan heavy for obvious reasons. I am going to dedicate
1:08.4	my decode to the media's lust on Afghanistan and war in general today. But we're talking about
1:15.2	other things as well, including the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the CDC's eviction
1:21.1	moratorium. Nando, what do you got coming up? I'm talking kind of about Afghanistan,
1:26.3	but not really. I'm talking more about more broadly about imperialism and how the empire is an
1:33.6	athema to democracy at home. How having the empire abroad actually undermines democracy here at
1:42.0	home. So it's like Afghanistan is the entry point, but really it's a broader, broader topic.
1:51.1	Did you by any chance see that Seth molten a democratic congressman and then a Republican
1:57.1	congressman, Peter Meyer, both took this unauthorized trip to Afghanistan just to do like this PR stunt.
2:04.5	It was the most so not only did they show up and kind of like disrupt an already insanely chaotic
2:12.9	situation as we're trying to evacuate people from the Kabul airport, then they have to take up two
2:19.2	spaces to get back home. And when there was backlash, they're like, you know, the whole point
2:24.5	of the trip, by the way, was to make themselves out to be like these heroes who are showing up to
2:29.5	figure out what's happening on the ground to save people. In reality, all they did was message
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