What’s next for Biden, climate change and Trump’s big lie?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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KCRW’s Warren Olney talks with Harvard law professor Jody Freeman and Princeton international affairs professor Michael Oppenheimer about Biden’s climate plans and what it means to reach “net zero” by 2050. Then Brown University politics professor Corey Brettschneider warns that phony claims of election fraud are dangerous to democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's To The Point is shaping up as a good one. |
| 0:06.3 | It's all about Joe Biden and climate change and will also take a long look forward at Donald |
| 0:12.2 | Trump's continuing big lie about fraud in U.S. elections. |
| 0:16.9 | Trump called climate change a hoax, and he systematically dismantled environmental protections. |
| 0:21.6 | Joe Biden has other ideas. |
| 0:23.6 | Climate change is the existential threat to humanity. |
| 0:27.6 | The existential threat to humanity. |
| 0:29.6 | Unchecked, it is going to actually bake this planet. |
| 0:33.6 | Biden has a $2 trillion plan that puts the U.S. on a path to net zero emissions by 2050. |
| 0:42.1 | In a moment, we'll hear what net zero really means, and it's not what it sounds like. |
| 0:47.3 | But what can Biden do now? Starting next month on inauguration day with a much reduced majority |
| 0:53.3 | in the House and very likely |
| 0:55.1 | a Republican Senate. Jody Freeman is a veteran of the Obama White House, now the Archibald Cox |
| 1:01.8 | Professor of Law and Director of Harvard Law School's Environmental Program. Welcome back to |
| 1:07.1 | To the Point. Great to be here. Thanks for having me. Joe Biden is promising to build back |
| 1:12.1 | better. What does that mean? How can he essentially do this all by himself? Well, I don't think he's |
| 1:17.2 | going to be doing it all by himself, but he will be leveraging the full power of the federal government. |
| 1:21.9 | The president has an awful lot of authority to use his agencies like the Environmental Protection |
| 1:26.8 | Agency and many others |
| 1:28.8 | to set standards for greenhouse gases and get us back on track. |
| 1:32.9 | Basically, Biden is going to put back in place all the climate rules that the Trump |
| 1:37.3 | administration unraveled, and he's going to announce that the United States will rejoin the Paris |
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