Hot & Bothered: A Dissent Climate Podcast

Where should the climate movement be focusing its energy in the Biden era? The post Hot & Bothered: A Glide Path to Ruin appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade. The post Hot & Bothered: A Decade to Win appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 movements and, ultimately, expanding the horizon of a vibrant working-class life. The post Hot & Bothered: An Abolitionist Green New Deal, with Jasson Perez appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered: Putting Racial Justice First, with Patrick Houston appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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—and many more, besides—in communities of color? The post Hot & Bothered: Why Defunding the Police is Key to a Just Transition, with J. Mijin Cha appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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? The post Hot & Bothered: Has the Fracking Bubble Finally Burst? with Bethany McLean appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered: Designing a Green New Deal, with Billy Fleming appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 campaign message didn’t resonate with many (especially older) black voters.  The post Hot & Bothered: A Climate Story to Win a Multiracial Majority, with Mary Annaïse Heglar appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 coming together also means naming new enemies.  The post Hot & Bothered Podcast: A New Commonwealth, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 tied to democracy. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast: Debt vs. Democracy, with Astra Taylor appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast: Climate Politics in the Time of Coronavirus appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Announcing Hot & Bothered Season 2: Pandemic Edition appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

We can only decarbonize fast and reduce social inequalities at the same time with a new political economy. The post Hot & Bothered: Bold Visions for a Green New Deal appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 political system, and how do we put frontline communities in the lead? The post Hot & Bothered: Radical Pragmatism appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered: Beyond the New Deal appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered: Building Power, with Naomi Klein, Jane McAlevey, and Julian Brave NoiseCat appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast: What the Climate Doomsayers Get Wrong appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like? appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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? The first in a three-part series from Hot & Bothered and our friends at Cited. The post Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #11: A Just Transition for New York State? With Franchelle Hart appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #10: Into the Abyss appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Data scientist Kevin Ummel joins Daniel to discuss carbon, consumption, cities, and how climate policies should reflect them. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #9: A Holiday Gift for Climate Wonks, with Kevin Ummel appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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" gentrification in the Bay Area. And Kate reports from Standing Rock, where Native activists are looking ahead to the long term. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #8: Why Climate Justice Means Racial Justice, with Dawn Phillips appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #7: What Trump’s Victory Means for the Climate Movement appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 what energy democracy means in the age of Brexit and Trump. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #6: Taking Back Power, with James Angel appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 Access Pipeline continues. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #5: Time for a Green New Deal, with Robert Pollin appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Leading Nigerian climate activist Ken Henshaw discusses fossil fuel resistance and the uphill battle for energy democracy in Africa’s largest oil-producing region. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #4: Resisting Oil in the Niger Delta, with Ken Henshaw appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Leading climate scientist Michael Mann explains what “runaway” climate change, feedback mechanisms, and tipping points actually mean—and why there's still hope. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #3: How Tipping Points Actually Work—And Why It’s Not Over Yet, with Michael Mann appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #2: System Change on a Deadline, with Naomi Klein appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

In the inaugural episode of Hot & Bothered, we explore the growing fight against fossil fuel extraction, with guests Bill McKibben and Tara Houska. The post Hot & Bothered Podcast #1: Breaking Free from Fossil Fuels, with Bill McKibben and Tara Houska appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

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 Paris, and from UNFCCC veteran J. Timmons Roberts. The post Hot & Bothered Pilot Episode: After Paris, What’s Next? appeared first on Dissent Magazine.