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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

What Happened to the Climate Crisis?

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes the editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, Kyle Pope, to talk about how the press is covering – and not covering – the climate crisis. Plus, Ralph weighs in on Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his Vice President, tells you how you should get rebates from your auto insurance company, how the Democrats should be responding to Trump’s latest executive orders, how flyers should boycott the Boeing Max 8, and how to deal with “the lesser of two evils.”



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0:00.0

It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.0

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.0

You've been sitting way too long.

0:10.0

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David Feldman.

0:19.0

Hello there, David. Hello there, good morning.

0:22.0

Good morning.

0:23.0

And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

0:25.0

Hello, Ralph.

0:26.0

Hello, everybody.

0:27.0

Now, Ralph, we're going to start off the show here.

0:29.0

We've got a great show for you, but we're going to start off,

0:31.0

you've got some things on your mind, a few issues you want to talk about before we dig into the body of the show what's on your mind Ralph? Well first of all everybody knows that Joe Biden has selected Kamala Harris, senator from California as his Vice Presidential

0:45.0

running mate.

0:46.6

And although many are pleased about the symbolic move that that represents, we should remember two things, that in a poll a few months ago,

0:56.2

a majority of African Americans preferred Elizabeth Warren

1:00.3

over other black female potential candidates.

1:05.0

Why?

1:06.0

Well, because as black authors of an op-ed in the Washington Post a few weeks ago,

1:11.0

she has actually walked the walk, not just talk to talk. She has fought

1:16.5

corporations who are exploiting African Americans in a whole variety of ways,

1:22.2

safety, health, insurance, and of course economically.

1:27.0

She's worked in the housing area, she's worked in the consumer credit and debit area. She's gone after payday loan rackets and rent to own rackets. That's number one. Number two, if you look at Kamala Harris's record, especially as Attorney General of California,

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