Why U.S. Should Brace For a Rise in Green Fascism

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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As the Supreme Court limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, David Roberts, author of climate newsletter, Volts, tells Molly Jong-Fast why America is about to see a rise in “green fascism.” Also on this episode: Climate change writer and author Kate Aronoff explores why politicians are unwilling to act on global warming despite a majority of Americans being in favor of action.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
0:04.6	I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envote.
0:08.0	And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:13.7	objective.
0:14.7	And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:18.0	the rails.
0:19.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science
0:23.5	and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
0:28.0	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal we'll talk about the
0:31.8	people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
0:35.8	Hi there, we're on vacation this week but we still made some great shows for you before
0:40.6	we left.
0:41.6	First we're going to talk to David Roberts who of course writes the climate newsletter
0:45.6	Volts and he's going to talk to us about the latest on clean energy and the politics around
0:50.7	it.
0:51.7	Then we're going to talk to Kate Aranoff who covers climate for the new republic and is
0:54.7	the author of overheated how capitalism broke the planet and how we fight back.
0:59.3	She's going to tell us all about her book.
1:01.2	But first I wrote a bunch of questions for Andy and Molly to talk about politics and who
1:06.1	they are as people so you could all get to know them a little bit better and they'll
1:09.4	be answering them throughout the week.
1:11.6	So let's start off easy.
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