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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

What Do We Do About Climate Change?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

New York Times Opinion

Journalism, New York Times, Ross Douthat, News, Society & Culture

4.07.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

How can climate change be solved if politicians can't even agree there's a problem? The columnists brainstorm. Then, David Leonhardt visits Capitol Hill to interview California Representative Ro Khanna, "the ambassador of Silicon Valley," about Trump and progressive economics. And finally, a friendly recommendation. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0

I'm Michelle Goldberg.

0:01.0

I'm Ross Douthand.

0:02.0

I'm David Lee Unhart.

0:03.9

And this is the argument.

0:07.0

This week, we're talking about climate change.

0:10.1

How can we move toward a solution when we don't even agree on the problem?

0:14.1

I don't think there is clear evidence that extreme weather generally has increased.

0:19.3

Then I speak with California Congressman Rokana about the future of the Democratic Party.

0:24.8

We instinctively are on the side of America winning just as Trump and he just has a wrong

0:30.4

message.

0:31.4

And finally, a recommendation.

0:33.4

That's incredibly sappy.

0:35.3

David, I've cut off all my friends.

0:44.3

This summer, I went to Portland, Oregon for a few days to visit family.

0:48.4

But instead of the Pacific Northwest's famously gorgeous August weather, I spent four

0:53.6

days surrounded by barely breathable air because of wildfires in nearby Washington State.

0:59.9

A lot of other Americans have had a version of this experience and sometimes much worse.

1:04.9

2018 has been the year that the effects of climate change have become much more obvious,

1:11.2

not just heat waves, but droughts, more extreme storms and terrible wildfires.

1:16.6

It's the Walsy and the Campfires.

1:18.6

We're going to consume more than 300,000 acres, destroyed more than 12,000 homes and taken

1:24.1

at least 80 lives.

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