• America's Election, Alberta's Impact

  • Oct 16 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
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America's Election, Alberta's Impact

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  • As it relates to climate change and indeed a great many other things the difference between America's latest candidates for world's most powerful person is most regularly described as STARK. VP Kamala Harris' climate plan is largely seen to be a continuance of sitting President Joe Biden's climate policies, the flagship for which is his strategically named Inflation Reduction Act which has been described as the single most substantial piece of climate legislation in US history, providing $370 billion of investment in clean energy infrastructure and putting the world on notice that America was done sleeping on Climate Change.The other choice is former president Donald Trump whose positions on climate change have ranged from outright denial to jokes (are they jokes?) about having a little more beachfront property due to sea level rise. He's denied his involvement with the Project 2025 thinktank but he's also said Project 2025 “lays the groundwork and detailed plans for exactly what our movement will do” which would include repealing Biden's climate work as well as politicizing, scaling down or outright eliminating much of America's early disaster warning systems for being, I suppose too climatey even as climate-Jacked Hurricanes like Helene and now today Milton ravage Florida once again. To help us parse out what this election and a President Harris or President Trump means for our country and for specifically this province I'm very happy to have as a guest for this month's show Lisa Young, professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and writer of the "What Now?!?" Alberta Politics newsletter on Substack. ***** Sources used in this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uJi3obKYwH_ogLB2nIGos3m6GWTmKJmq2gwXOEscTvk/ Transcript of the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwLdybyFAp895CwEOt_V1tRXFmRgTxOW_bbFy59qr_s/ ***** CALLS TO ACTION! Advocacy Campaign Organizer Workshop: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/advocacy_campaign_organizer_workshop_2025 ***** Lisa Young: https://x.com/JLisaYoung "What Now?!?" Alberta Politics newsletter: https://lisayoung.substack.com/ ***** If you appreciate what we're doing here at the Climate Lens one way you could help out is become a member of our Patreon for just 5 bucks a month at https://www.patreon.com/TheClimateLens or make a one time donation via the Calgary Climate Hub website at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/92219 **** Calgary Climate Hub Website: https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClimateHubYYC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calgaryclimatehub/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calgaryclimatehub/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzh9NWUmvSzpOsa7ReTs83Q Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/climatehubyyc.bsky.social Mastodon: https://campaign.openworlds.info/@ClimateHubYYC Volunteer! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/volunteer Become a Member! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/membership Donate! https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/donate Support us on Patreon!
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