The Green New Deal Approach to Climate Change

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Sally Kohn: I feel like hearing you talk about it, that maybe those two strains are coalescing for me a little bit. Seems like they're sort of coming together in that approach to me. She says both sides would agree that electrifying everything is part of the answer to climate change. But there's a whole other argument because one side says solar and wind can't happen from sustainment without fossil fuels,. she says.Kohn: There's another area which that fight is going on or in California, where you have this tremendous fight between people who want to say we shouldn't be having golf courses and lawns.

This week Adam welcomes an author whose book blew his mind more than perhaps any other. Americans are typically taught that prior to the arrival of European settlers, indigenous communities were sparsely populated, lacked technology, and did little to shape the natural landscape. But as this week’s guest Charles C. Mann’s 1491 tells Adam, the most recent research reveals that the American indigenous civilizations were sophisticated, dynamic, and massively populated. Purchase his books 1491 and 1493 at http://factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.