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Welcome to the political scene.

I'm Tyler Foggett, and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker.

On Tuesday, July 4th, a disturbing record was broken. It was the hottest day ever recorded on

Earth. And that was just one of many heat-related records that had been broken this summer.

Historically high temperatures have been recorded around the planet,

from Canada to Kuwait, causing fires, floods, and other extreme weather events. In a recent article

for The New Yorker, Bill McKibben explained that we'll keep setting terrifying new records like

these, unless the climate movement can break the fossil fuel industry's grip on political power.

Hi, Bill. Thank you so much for being here. Well, what a pleasure to be with you.

Before we look at the global picture, I wanted to talk about your home state of Vermont, which was

hit with massive floods just this week. Have you been

affected by that? Yeah, almost everybody in Vermont's been affected because it's a small place.

And this is very reminiscent of the immense damage that happened in 2011 with Hurricane Irene.

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