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Biden’s climate plan has serious defects but Trump’s aggressive climate denial must be defeated, says economist Robert Pollin, co-author with Noam Chomsky of Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet. Additionally, Pollin reveals that a Nobel- Prize-winning economist says that four degrees warming above pre-industrial levels would be “optimal” — something climate scientists consider cataclysmic. Robert Pollin joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
Towards a Green Economy: Tax, Trade, Cap, Deny? – Robert Pollin on RAI (7/8)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Pollin says the politics around climate change has deteriorated; a few years ago even President Bush and Senator McCain were both talking about measures to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced January 13, 2015.
What’s the Matter with America? – Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas”, joins Paul Jay to answer the question: “why was this election even close”?
Big Digital Tech Moves Into Synthetic Biology: The Generative AI Rush/Black Box Biotech – Pt 1/2
Jim Thomas says profit driven generative biology, Big Tech integration of artificial intelligence with synthetic biology, raises serious challenges for global oversight of biotechnology and governments need to separate hype from reality at the upcoming 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP16). Produced by GPEnewsdocs.
Fighting Rahm Emanuel’s Privatization of Chicago’s Schools – RAI with LaRaviere (pt 3/4)
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, the president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, Troy LaRaviere, says there’s no evidence that giving corporations tax breaks or putting schools in competition with each other makes for better education; in fact, the evidence says the opposite.
Isn’t “multistakeholderism” newspeak for Mussolini’s definition of fascism?