Hot & Bothered: A Dissent Climate Podcast

In the second episode of Hot & Bothered, we have an extended conversation with Naomi Klein—author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate—about the struggle to build an alternative to fossil-fueled capitalism. What future horizons can we dream about and bring into reality? What practical precedents can we build on? How is the climate movement doing in Canada, where Klein and the Leap Manifesto that she helped write have been all over the news?

We then discuss the potential of publicly owned renewables and reform efforts in rural electric cooperatives, New Deal-era utilities set up to fill gaps left by private electricity providers. Could a Renewable Electrification Administration weather the accusations of “creeping socialism” its Depression-era predecessor faced?

We’re asking the big questions! And we’re asking you to help us do better. Listeners: send us your feedback at #HotBotheredClimate. Tweet the burning questions you want us to address, plus compliments, complaints, or any other reactions that start with a C.

And stay tuned for episode three next month, featuring an interview with the climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. Schmidt is the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the co-author of Climate Change: Picturing the Science. We’ll be talking about the science of those terrifying climate “tipping points.”

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Naomi Klein and the Leap Manifesto

Text of the Leap Manifesto

Naomi Klein, The Leap: Time for a Reality Check

Naomi Klein, Katie McKenna, and Bianca Mugyenyi, The Leap: Always Independent

Naomi Klein, Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World (London Review of Books)

Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Book and film)

Analysis of Klein’s This Changes Everything

Naomi Klein and the Left, a symposium featuring three review-essays in Jacobin magazine:

Kate Aronoff, Review: This Changes Everything, the film (Yes! magazine)

Beyond fossil fuels

Kate Aronoff, How to Socialize America’s Energy, in Dissent’s special issue on climate justice (Spring 2016)

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In the inaugural episode of Hot & Bothered, we tackle the growing fight against fossil fuel extraction. What are the latest developments in this escalating movement? Is fracking even worse than we thought? How are Native American communities leading the climate fight? And how do these struggles intersect with longer-running battles for social and and economic justice? This week we talk to Bill McKibben, longtime author and environmentalist and a co-founder of 350.org, as well as Tara Houska, director at Honor the Earth, tribal rights attorney, and Bernie Sanders’s chief advisor on Native American issues.

We also catch up with the Break Free protests in Albany, New York and elsewhere, and we round up recent news on the wildfire burning Fort McMurray, Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the environmental consequences of the soft coup in Brazil, and the signing of the Paris climate agreement.

Listeners: we want to hear from you! Send us your feedback at #HotBotheredClimate. Tweet burning questions you want us to address, compliments, complaints, or any other reactions. And stay tuned for episode two next month, featuring an extended conversation with Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

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News

Brazil prepares to roll back green laws (Climate News Network)

Hazardous smoke and hot spots slow re-entry plans for Fort McMurray (CBC)

Thousands protest ‘bomb trains’ and environmental racism in Albany (Waging Nonviolence)

26 Attorneys General Are Suing The EPA. The Public Only Agrees With Them In 3 States. (Think Progress)

Obama administration announces historic new regulations for methane emissions from oil and gas (Washington Post)

Bill McKibben: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry (The Nation)

Tara Houska: Government Promises, COP21 and People’s Power (Huffington Post)

Kate Aronoff: Can the climate movement break free from the ‘jobs vs. environment’ debate? (Waging Nonviolence)

Daniel Aldana Cohen: Time to Pull the Plug on Urban Fossil Consumption (Verso online)

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For six years, governments and environmentalists the world over steeled themselves for the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris, the landmark UN climate talks tasked with setting humanity on the path toward a low-carbon future. Better known as COP21, those two weeks are now behind us; governments, organizers, and policy analysts have regrouped and are charting their next steps. There remain serious gaps between the Paris Agreement and averting temperature rises “incompatible with organized global community,” as climate scientist Kevin Anderson has described our prospective 2-plus-degrees-hotter future. The question now is how to fill those gaps.

In a special Dissent audio dispatch, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff break down the deal itself, providing a crash-course for the UNFCCC-uninitiated and a look at the politics behind it. We also hear a few experts’ thoughts on the deal and their plans for the coming months and years. First, we go to Paris to talk to organizers from a range of different movements about what happened at COP21, inside and outside of Le Bourget. We also speak with J. Timmons Roberts of Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab about the talks, historic responsibility for the climate crisis, shady corporate climate financing, and the need for wartime-level mobilization today.

Music by Mihran Abrahamian (@__mihran). Produced by Colin Kinniburgh.

‘Paris Deal is a Death Warrant for Africa’ (teleSUR)

The world just agreed to a major climate deal in Paris. Now comes the hard part. (Vox)

Falling Short on Climate in Paris (New York Times)

Paris Climate Summit Was Like Agreeing To Cut Down From Five Burgers A Day To Just Four (Huffington Post)

Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments (The Guardian)

Climate agreement falls short of a fair deal—but Paris is only the beginning (ActionAid)

Paris deal: Epic fail on a planetary scale (New Internationalist)

Why Most Of What You Think You Know About The Paris Climate Deal Is Wrong: An Annotated News Story (The Leap)

Two Cheers for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Council on Foreign Relations)

Seven Wrinkles in the Paris Climate Deal (Foreign Policy in Focus)

Kate: Opposition Isn’t Enough (Jacobin)

Storms, Roots and Seeds: Beyond COP21! (It Takes Roots Delegation)

Paris climate activists put under house arrest using emergency laws (The Guardian)

Kate: The Beauty of COP21 Is in the Street (Waging Nonviolence)

Kate: Bringing Solutions to COP21: A Conversation with Brandon King (Waging Nonviolence)

UN promoting potentially genocidal policy at World Climate Summit (Indigenous Environmental Network)

Kate: Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen and the Dangers of Eco-Nationalism (In These Times)

Kate: Climate Games Challenge Protest Ban with Peer-to-Peer Disobedience: A Conversation with Selj Balamir (Waging Nonviolence)

Climate Finance in 2013-14 and the $100 billion goal (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)

Climate Change Finance, Analysis of a Recent OECD Report: Some Credible Facts Needed (Ministry of Finance, Government of India)

Measuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement using cumulative emissions (IOP Science)

An Environmental War Economy: The Lessons of Ecological Debt and Global Warming (New Economics Foundation)

Daniel: Seize the Hamptons (Jacobin)

Energize Rhode Island

The unfinished agenda of the Paris climate talks: Finance to the global south (Brookings)

Toward Mutual Adaptivity: The 2015 Adaptation Finance Transparency Gap Report (Adaptation Watch)

Daniel: The Urban Green Wars (Jacobin)

Kate: The Risks of Being Heard at COP21 (YES! Magazine)

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