[contentblock id=3] [contentblock id=2] [contentblock id=10] [contentblock id=3] Ten days out from Election Day, it looks like the worst has been averted. A presidential candidate who ran on the most ambitious climate platform the US has ever seen soundly defeated one who has spent the last four years torching environmental regulations, installing fossil fuel barons in the highest executive offices, and casting doubt on the reality of the climate crisis itself. Yet the early days of the transiti...
Nov 14, 2020•1 hr
In the final episode of this pandemic edition of Hot & Bothered, Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade. They discuss a new, $1.5 billion green infrastructure bill introduced by House Democrats; why dismantling the carceral state is key to climate politics; how the climate movement and the left more broadly has advanced in terms of contesting for power over the last decade; and why the zombie neoliberalism metaphor is, ...
Jun 25, 2020•56 min
The growing call to defund the police is inextricable from a wider push to democratize our institutions—from city governments up to the Federal Reserve Bank—so that they serve the multiracial working class rather than Wall Street. This, at its core, is what the Green New Deal is all about. But what does an abolitionist, ecosocialist program look like in practice? This week, Kate and Daniel speak to Jasson Perez, Senior Research Analyst at ACRE (the Action Center on Race and the Economy) and orga...
Jun 18, 2020•56 min
It took the mainstream climate movement a long time to come around to the idea that racial justice is climate justice. And while that understanding has solidified in recent years under pressure from frontline communities—shaping the push for a Green New Deal—many environmental groups are still uncertain about how to put it into practice. For New York Communities for Change (NYCC), connecting the dots between racial injustice and the climate crisis isn’t just a question of principle—it’s a daily ...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min
As uprisings against police violence and for black liberation have swept the nation over the past ten days, the climate movement has taken note. Groups ranging from the Sierra Club to the League of Conservation Voters have issued statements condemning racist violence; the Sunrise Movement and 350.org have gone further, echoing the call from racial justice organizers to defund the police. What will it take for the climate movement to move beyond statements of solidarity and advance a strategy of ...
Jun 04, 2020•56 min
On April 20, oil prices did something they’ve never done before. The value of West Texas Intermediate crude, a U.S. benchmark, dipped below zero for a few hours—trading as low as negative $40 a barrel. “I don’t think any of us can really believe what we saw today,” one industry analyst told AP. “This kind of rewrites the economics of oil trading.” Like so many other facets of the COVID-19 crisis, however, this unprecedented crash exposed long-running cracks in the facade. The fracking boom that ...
May 28, 2020•1 hr 7 min
The New Deal is often remembered for bringing the United States Social Security, the Works Progress Administration, and a blossoming of working-class culture underwritten by federal arts programs. In many parts of the country, it also cemented the vicious institutional racism of Jim Crow, the result of a devil’s bargain struck with the Southern Dixiecrats. Equally important, though, was the New Deal’s transformation of the American landscape. Federally backed and locally implemented programs cre...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min
In its sheer scope, climate change may be an unprecedented threat. But that doesn’t mean communities—in particular communities of color—haven’t faced existential threats before. As we now navigate the twin crises of climate and the COVID-19 pandemic, who better to lead a mass movement for a greener, more equal future? Mary Annaïse Heglar has addressed many of these themes in her recent writing for outlets including the Boston Globe , the New Republic , and ZORA , as well as on Hot Take , the pod...
May 14, 2020•59 min
From crocus blooms to interstates, the material world we live in sets the conditions for our politics. What would it take to establish collective, democratic rule over the material terms of our shared lives? How can we, as an “infrastructure species,” transform both our physical and political infrastructures—and even ourselves in the process? And how can we build an ecosocialism that can win in the months and years ahead? These are some of the questions guiding the work of Jedediah Britton-Purdy...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Under the weight of COVID-19, every lie we’ve been told about how the economy works is busting open, and our institutions are revealing themselves to be incapable of offering a path to recovery. Worse yet, many governments are using the crisis as a pretext for a punishing return to austerity. Why? The answer can be summed up in one word: debt, an issue that Astra Taylor has spent the last several years organizing around as co-founder of the Debt Collective . Also a prolific writer and documentar...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 9 min
The last two months have seen the left come closer than it has in decades to nominating a U.S. presidential candidate, only to end in stinging defeat. In Congress, Democratic leaders have been on the back foot in negotiating record stimulus spending amid a historic crisis. For the U.S. left, in other words, the current moment in many ways looks like one of defeat. Still, says Waleed Shahid, “The progressive movement is dominating the ideas conversation in the Democratic party, which was not the ...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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. From empty supermarket shelves sparking fears of shortages, to farmers dumping out lagoons’ worth of milk, to endless lines forming outside of food banks and migrant workers facing threats of pay cuts, the coronavirus pandemic has put the contradictions of our global food system on full display. And who better to help us parse ...
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Still hot… still bothered… and now facing a global crisis rivaled only by the climate emergency itself. Kate Aronoff and Daniel Aldana Cohen are back with a new season of Hot & Bothered , the podcast on climate politics for the 99%, hosted by Dissent magazine. Every Thursday, they’ll be joined by friends and special guests far and wide, to make sense of the catastrophe(s) unfolding around us and think through what comes next. For the first episode, Kate and Daniel catch up on the onslaught o...
Apr 09, 2020•38 min
Still hot… still bothered… and now facing a global crisis rivaled only by the climate emergency itself. Kate Aronoff and Daniel Aldana Cohen are back for a new season of Hot & Bothered , the podcast on climate politics for the 99%, hosted by Dissent magazine. Every Thursday, they’ll be joined by friends and special guests far and wide, to make sense of the catastrophe(s) unfolding around us and think through what comes next. And Colin Kinniburgh will be back as their tireless producer. They ...
Apr 08, 2020•3 min
This podcast episode is part of a special mini-series on Designing the Green New Deal. The Hot & Bothered podcast will return from a hiatus next Thursday, April 9. Tune in with Kate and Daniel for weekly episodes on how we tackle climate change amid the coronavirus emergency. To win a Green New Deal, we need to deepen and expand mass movements and coalitions. Last fall at the University of Pennsylvania, we organized a massive conference on Designing a Green New Deal, with contributions by ac...
Apr 04, 2020•2 hr 8 min
This podcast episode is part of a special mini-series on Designing the Green New Deal. The Hot & Bothered podcast will return from a hiatus next Thursday, April 9. Tune in with Kate and Daniel for weekly episodes on how we tackle climate change amid the coronavirus emergency. To win a Green New Deal, we need to deepen and expand mass movements and coalitions. Last fall at the University of Pennsylvania, we organized a massive conference on Designing a Green New Deal, with contributions by ac...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 47 min
This podcast episode is part of a special mini-series on Designing the Green New Deal. The Hot & Bothered podcast will return from a hiatus next Thursday, April 9. Tune in with Kate and Daniel for weekly episodes on how we tackle climate change amid the coronavirus emergency. To win a Green New Deal, we need to deepen and expand mass movements and coalitions. Last fall at the University of Pennsylvania, we organized a massive conference on Designing a Green New Deal, with contributions by ac...
Apr 02, 2020•2 hr 10 min
This podcast episode is part of a special mini-series on Designing the Green New Deal. The Hot & Bothered podcast will return from a hiatus next Thursday, April 9. Tune in with Kate and Daniel for weekly episodes on how we tackle climate change amid the coronavirus emergency. To win a Green New Deal, we need to deepen and expand mass movements and coalitions. Last fall at the University of Pennsylvania, we organized a massive conference on Designing a Green New Deal, with contributions by ac...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 32 min
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—and, along the way, manage to find hope for a more equal, low-carbon future. Continue the conversation on Twitter: tag us @KateAronoff , @aldatweets , @dissentmag , and #hotbotheredclimate . You can find links to all the articles mentioned in this episode, and lots more related reading and listening, below. And if yo...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 2 min
This is part two of a three-part collaboration between Hot & Bothered and Cited , an award-winning documentary radio show out of the University of British Columbia. Over the course of the three broadcasts, Kate Aronoff and Daniel Aldana Cohen will be joining Cited producers Sam Fenn, Josh GD, and Gordon Katic to talk environmentalism, jobs, climate migration, indigenous sovereignty, and more. Here’s episode 2. [contentblock id=3] [contentblock id=2] What does climate migration really look li...
Dec 14, 2017•35 min
We know—it’s been a long, hot summer without us, but the Hot & Bothered team is dipping its toes back in the rising waters of international climate politics with a special project to close out 2017. As we warm up for season two, we’re excited to launch a special, three-part miniseries in collaboration with Cited , an award-winning documentary radio show out of the University of British Columbia. Over the course of these next three broadcasts, Kate and Daniel will be joining Cited producers S...
Nov 17, 2017•59 min
We’re just under one month into the Trump regime and prospects for curbing climate change feel bleak. ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson has been confirmed as Secretary of State, the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines look like unkillable zombies, and the EPA is closer to the chopping block than ever. Still, the resistance is alive and well. As thousands flood into the streets to stop a draconian Muslim travel ban and attacks on civil liberties, a coalition of grassroots groups in New York is sho...
Feb 15, 2017•50 min
With Donald Trump at the White House doorstep, we do something different this month. The show features four brief interviews with leaders from across the climate movement on how they’re interpreting this unique moment—and what they plan to do about it. First up, Daniel speaks to Kert Davies , founder of the Climate Investigations Center . Before that, Kert was the chief architect of the Greenpeace web project ExxonSecrets , launched in 2004, which helped expose the oil giant ExxonMobil’s funding...
Jan 20, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Daniel’s map for “Carboniferous” in “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York Atlas” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (University of California Press, 2016). Cartography: Molly Roy ; artwork: Bette Burgoyne . Underlying data from Kevin Ummel, adapted from research he did for the Center for Global Development. Courtesy of University of California Press. Click here to view the full map . Just in time for a season of holiday excess, Daniel spends the ninth episode of Hot & Bothered indulging i...
Dec 21, 2016•1 hr 9 min
In the eighth episode of Hot & Bothered, we get two perspectives on the crucial links between racial justice and climate justice. First, Kate travels to Standing Rock to talk to Native organizers there about their recent victory and what the growing movement against Trump can learn from the water protectors. Then, Daniel speaks with Dawn Phillips, Program Director at Causa Justa-Just Cause , a multiracial, grassroots organization building community leadership to achieve justice for low-incom...
Dec 12, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Hot & Bothered #7 is a little different. The national election this past Tuesday was a $#$#*(@ disaster. Donald Trump will be president of the United States. We did not expect this. We did not plan for this. But the future of our species will in part depend on how successfully we can fight back. By chance, Kate happened to be in Philadelphia, where Daniel lives, on November 10. So we sat down on a couch, poured a couple glasses of wine, and tried to wrap our heads around climate politics in ...
Nov 13, 2016•1 hr 2 min
In the sixth episode of Hot & Bothered, we take a break from biting our nails over November 8 to look abroad—and ahead—at what the climate movement can do with a foothold in state power. But not before we get Kate’s take on what’s wrong with the Green Party, and why we should probably all still be knocking on doors to get out the vote this weekend. So why look across the pond? Well, after a long, broad-based campaign, a coalition called Switched On London recently secured a commitment from L...
Nov 05, 2016•51 min
It’s Episode 5 of Hot & Bothered and all around us, the bad climate news is falling like hard rain from the hot, damp air of a warming world. Long story short: time is getting uncomfortably tight. But it’s still far from over! In this episode, we take shelter from the storm. It’s the first in our new series on the idea of a Green New Deal to slash carbon emissions, crush inequality, and rebuild our politics. In our feature interview, Daniel speaks to Robert Pollin, an expert in the macroecon...
Oct 13, 2016•1 hr 9 min
In the fourth episode of Hot & Bothered, co-host Kate Aronoff talks to leading Nigerian climate activist Ken Henshaw about fossil fuel resistance in Africa’s largest oil-producing region. Communities in the Niger Delta are battling the oil companies themselves, whose environmental and human rights abuses have included everything from gas flaring to colluding in the killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow Ogoni activists in 1995. But they’re also dealing with the immediate climate impacts f...
Aug 17, 2016•53 min
In the third episode of Hot & Bothered, co-host Daniel Aldana Cohen has an extended conversation with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about what “runaway” climate change, feedback mechanisms, and tipping points actually mean. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University and the director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center. We ask Mann: is there One Big Threshold that we’ve already crossed (or are about to cross)? Is a methane bomb in the pe...
Jul 13, 2016•50 min
