This is the final installment of our 5 Non-Negotiables of the Left series where we detail three short-term goals to take back the country and two long-term fights that must be waged for the sake of our democracy and the planet. This fifth entry speaks to the now back-burnered but ever-present threat to life on this planet: Climate change. This is the most difficult case we’ll make to you.

We expect pushback and disappointment at first but if we do our job, we’ll shift you to acknowledgement and resolve. This fifth Non-Negotiable isn’t for us. It’s for someone you might know, but more than likely it’s for someone you’ll never meet. We present the establishment of The Climate Trust: Social Security for the Planet.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:57

Chapter One: Diet, Exercise and Nuclear Power. 00:01:25

Chapter Two: The Social Cost of Carbon. 00:06:21

Chapter Three: Settling into Reality. 00:10:37

Chapter Four: We’ve Known It All Along. 00:17:55

Non-Negotiable #5: The Climate Trust. 00:26:36

Post Show Musings: 00:30:30

Outro: 01:23:22

Resources

IPCC: Summary for Policymakers — Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Institute for Policy Integrity: Gauging Economic Consensus on Climate Change

The Center for Climate & Security: Chronology of Military and Intelligence Concerns About Climate Change

World Economic Forum: This is How Climate Change Could Impact The Global Economy

Swiss Re: World economy set to lose up to 18% GDP from climate change if no action taken, reveals Swiss Re Institute's stress-test analysis

The New York Times: 40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.

The Black Vault: Global Climate Change Implications for the U.S. Navy

Thomas Malthus: On the Principle of Population

United Nations: Food Systems Summit

United Nations: Secretary-General’s Chair Summary and Statement of Action on the UN Food Systems Summit

US EPA: Global Greenhouse Gas Overview

Penn State: Plant-Based Diet

Rodale Institute: Farming Systems Trial

Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index

The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health

Energy Education: Discovery of the greenhouse effect

APS: August 1856: Eunice Foote Concludes That Carbon Dioxide Could Warm the Atmosphere, Three Years Before John Tyndall Did

DQYDJ: Income Percentile Calculator for the United States

Eunice Foote: Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays

CNA: National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

GovInfo: National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030

U.S. Department of Defense: Department of Defense 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap

Global Monitoring Laboratory: Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

UNIDO: HCFC Phase-Out

PBS NewsHour: Antarctic ozone hole believed to be shrinking

Book Love

James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent

Cass R. Sunstein: Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

Tad Delay: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

Nicoletta Batini: The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet

Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

Michael T. Klare: All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change

Lester R. Brown: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

John Tyndall: Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion

William Stanley Jevons: The Coal Question

UNFTR Resources

Building the Climate Industrial Complex.

The Montreal Protocol.

Phone A Friend: Tad Delay.

A (Mostly) Vegan World.

UNFTR Non-Negotiables.

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