In this episode, Jeremi and Zachary talk with special guest, Dr. Sheila Olmstead about climate change, the environment, and how the pandemic has exacerbated and changed our policies in handling it.

Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Fuelless”.

Dr. Sheila Olmstead is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), and a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). Professor Olmstead is a Charter Member of the Science Advisory Board at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In 2016-2017 she served in the White House as Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Professor Olmstead has published in leading journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Urban Economics, Science, Water Resources Research, and Environmental Science and Technology.

This episode of This is Democracy was mixed and mastered by Alejandra Arrazola and Ean Herrera.