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Hot&Bothered: A Glide Path to Ruin from 2020-11-14T14:01:42

Where should the climate movement be focusing its energy in the Biden era?

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Hot&Bothered: A Decade to Win from 2020-06-25T22:51:53

Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade.

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Hot&Bothered: An Abolitionist Green New Deal, with Jasson Perez from 2020-06-18T20:51:54

What does an abolitionist, ecosocialist program look like in practice? Researcher and organizer Jasson Perez explains why working toward police and prison abolition is key to building social mov...

Hot&Bothered: Putting Racial Justice First, with Patrick Houston from 2020-06-11T18:45:32

Connecting the dots between racial injustice and the climate crisis isn’t just a question of principle—it’s a daily reality. Organizer Patrick Houston describes how the movement can win.

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Hot&Bothered: Why Defunding the Police is Key to a Just Transition, with J. Mijin Cha from 2020-06-04T15:45:45

What will it take for the climate movement to move beyond statements of solidarity and advance a strategy of targeted divestment from racist institutions, in order to reinvest those resources—an...

Hot&Bothered: Has the Fracking Bubble Finally Burst? with Bethany McLean from 2020-05-28T17:38:41

The fracking boom that drove a decade of record U.S. oil and gas production was never really profitable to begin with. Has its bubble finally burst?

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Hot&Bothered: Designing a Green New Deal, with Billy Fleming from 2020-05-21T17:37:32

Billy Fleming discusses not just the kinds of policies that should anchor a Green New Deal, but how to advance an effective inside-outside strategy to win them as we gear up for 2021.

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Hot&Bothered: A Climate Story to Win a Multiracial Majority, with Mary Annaïse Heglar from 2020-05-14T15:46:50

Mary Annaïse Heglar talks to Kate and Daniel about climate grief; why we don’t have to choose between caring about police violence and caring about the polar bears; and why Bernie Sanders’s camp...

Hot&Bothered Podcast: A New Commonwealth, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy from 2020-05-07T19:30:01

On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Jedediah about his vision of commonwealth politics; the challenges of organizing in a socially distanced world; where the law fits in; and whether co...

Hot&Bothered Podcast: Debt vs. Democracy, with Astra Taylor from 2020-04-30T16:25:23

On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Astra about what the coronavirus pandemic has to do with eating meat, whether we really need a technocratic savior, and why debt relief is inherently...

Hot&Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid from 2020-04-23T17:09:35

On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel from 2020-04-16T21:17:48

With half of the planet on lockdown, many people around the world have been suddenly confronted with an issue they’re not used to thinking about in political terms: food.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast: Climate Politics in the Time of Coronavirus from 2020-04-09T19:00:14

Still hot… still bothered… and now facing a global crisis rivaled only by the climate emergency itself. The first episode in a new season of the Hot&Bothered podcast.

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Announcing Hot&Bothered Season 2: Pandemic Edition from 2020-04-08T17:55:52

We are back for a new series of the Hot&Bothered podcast, with weekly episodes on climate politics in the time of coronavirus. But we won’t be able to do it without your support.

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Hot&Bothered: Bold Visions for a Green New Deal from 2020-04-04T21:04:05

We can only decarbonize fast and reduce social inequalities at the same time with a new political economy.

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Hot&Bothered: Radical Pragmatism from 2020-04-03T14:18:42

A Green New Deal needs to translate lofty ideas into specific interventions. How quickly can we decarbonize our energy grid, how do we overcome the institutional obstacles of the American politi...

Hot&Bothered: Beyond the New Deal from 2020-04-02T14:06:32

It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.

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Hot&Bothered: Building Power, with Naomi Klein, Jane McAlevey, and Julian Brave NoiseCat from 2020-04-01T12:00:45

What do political mobilization and economic reconstruction look like in the face of a climate emergency?

The first in a four-part series on how we win a Green New Deal.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast: What the Climate Doomsayers Get Wrong from 2018-10-23T18:53:31

Facing a deluge of doom-and-gloom reporting on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Kate and Daniel get together to put things in perspective.

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What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like? from 2017-12-14T14:10

We meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, who help us parse the little-understood term “climate refugee” and the unequal ways climate change is felt around the world.

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Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics from 2017-11-17T18:44:52

In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #11: A Just Transition for New York State? With Franchelle Hart from 2017-02-15T20:54:20

From the Rust Belt to the Big Apple, a coalition of grassroots groups across New York state is showing what local climate policy can do in the age of Trump.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #10: Into the Abyss from 2017-01-20T13:08:44

Four guests join us for back-to-back interviews on how the climate movement is gearing up to resist Trump’s agenda and build toward a radically different future.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #9: A Holiday Gift for Climate Wonks, with Kevin Ummel from 2016-12-21T18:21:49

Data scientist Kevin Ummel joins Daniel to discuss carbon, consumption, cities, and how climate policies should reflect them.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #8: Why Climate Justice Means Racial Justice, with Dawn Phillips from 2016-12-12T19:37:26

What does fighting environmental racism really look like? Daniel talks to Dawn Phillips, a lead organizer with Causa Justa-Just Cause, which has been leading the fight against"green"gentrificati...

Hot&Bothered Podcast #7: What Trump’s Victory Means for the Climate Movement from 2016-11-13T16:06:22

Kate and Daniel try to wrap their heads around climate politics in the age of Trump, and how movements can step up to defeat his extremist agenda.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #6: Taking Back Power, with James Angel from 2016-11-05T12:00:34

After years of campaigning, London activists recently secured a commitment from the city's mayor to create a publicly-owned municipal energy company. James Angel of Switched On London explains w...

Hot&Bothered Podcast #5: Time for a Green New Deal, with Robert Pollin from 2016-10-13T19:25:33

Economist Robert Pollin joins us to introduce a new series on the promise—and practicalities—of a Green New Deal. We also get an update from Standing Rock, where the fight against the Dakota Acc...

Hot&Bothered Podcast #4: Resisting Oil in the Niger Delta, with Ken Henshaw from 2016-08-17T15:52:37

Leading Nigerian climate activist Ken Henshaw discusses fossil fuel resistance and the uphill battle for energy democracy in Africa’s largest oil-producing region.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #3: How Tipping Points Actually Work—And Why It’s Not Over Yet, with Michael Mann from 2016-07-13T11:52:05

Leading climate scientist Michael Mann explains what “runaway” climate change, feedback mechanisms, and tipping points actually mean—and why there's still hope.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #2: System Change on a Deadline, with Naomi Klein from 2016-06-02T19:51:41

In an extended interview, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses the Leap Manifesto, and what it will take to get us to a just, carbon-free world.

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Hot&Bothered Podcast #1: Breaking Free from Fossil Fuels, with Bill McKibben and Tara Houska from 2016-05-19T13:03:39

In the inaugural episode of Hot&Bothered, we explore the growing fight against fossil fuel extraction, with guests Bill McKibben and Tara Houska.

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Hot&Bothered Pilot Episode: After Paris, What’s Next? from 2016-01-13T06:13:09

In a special podcast dispatch, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff discuss what the COP21 deal will mean for the climate movement in 2016. They hear from activists who were in the streets in Pa...