Climate Action: Non-Negotiable #5.
Unf*cking The Republic
Exploring a Civilian Labor Corps and Sustainable Economic Change
This chapter explores the potential of a Civilian Labor Corps to create substantial economic and environmental change, using models like the Tennessee Valley Authority and Mondragon as examples. It emphasizes the necessity of gradual policy shifts within a capitalist framework to ensure sustainable transformation without immediate systemic disruption.
This is the final installment of our 5 Non-Negotiables of the Left series where we detail three short-term goals to take back the country and two long-term fights that must be waged for the sake of our democracy and the planet. This fifth entry speaks to the now back-burnered but ever-present threat to life on this planet: Climate change. This is the most difficult case we’ll make to you.
We expect pushback and disappointment at first but if we do our job, we’ll shift you to acknowledgement and resolve. This fifth Non-Negotiable isn’t for us. It’s for someone you might know, but more than likely it’s for someone you’ll never meet. We present the establishment of The Climate Trust: Social Security for the Planet.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:57
Chapter One: Diet, Exercise and Nuclear Power. 00:01:25
Chapter Two: The Social Cost of Carbon. 00:06:21
Chapter Three: Settling into Reality. 00:10:37
Chapter Four: We’ve Known It All Along. 00:17:55
Non-Negotiable #5: The Climate Trust. 00:26:36
Post Show Musings: 00:30:30
Outro: 01:23:22
Resources
IPCC: Summary for Policymakers — Special Report on Climate Change and Land
Institute for Policy Integrity: Gauging Economic Consensus on Climate Change
The Center for Climate & Security: Chronology of Military and Intelligence Concerns About Climate Change
World Economic Forum: This is How Climate Change Could Impact The Global Economy
The New York Times: 40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.
The Black Vault: Global Climate Change Implications for the U.S. Navy
Thomas Malthus: On the Principle of Population
United Nations: Food Systems Summit
United Nations: Secretary-General’s Chair Summary and Statement of Action on the UN Food Systems Summit
US EPA: Global Greenhouse Gas Overview
Penn State: Plant-Based Diet
Rodale Institute: Farming Systems Trial
Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index
The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health
Energy Education: Discovery of the greenhouse effect
DQYDJ: Income Percentile Calculator for the United States
Eunice Foote: Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays
CNA: National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
GovInfo: National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030
U.S. Department of Defense: Department of Defense 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
Global Monitoring Laboratory: Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
UNIDO: HCFC Phase-Out
PBS NewsHour: Antarctic ozone hole believed to be shrinking
Book Love
James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent
Cass R. Sunstein: Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future
Tad Delay: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change
Nicoletta Batini: The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet
Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
Michael T. Klare: All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Lester R. Brown: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
John Tyndall: Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion
William Stanley Jevons: The Coal Question
UNFTR Resources
Building the Climate Industrial Complex.
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