Top UK scientist & truth-teller Kevin Anderson: the dangerous fantasy built into the climate narrative. Plus the awful story of the Texas nuclear parking lot with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, and Trump's secret backer for climate wrecking.
Interviews by Alex Smith, for Radio Ecoshock
Song "Time of Trials" by Alex Smith
In the Affiliates version there is a break point and re-intro at 31:45 for stations needing to insert station ID or announcements.
It's not that we are being lied to on a massive scale. We are, but that's not the point. We are lying to ourselves on a massive scale.
The agreement reached by our political leaders in Paris reflects our own unwillingness to make deep changes now to save the climate. As we see in this paper, it also marks our very human way of answering a real threat with procrastination and fantasy.
After Dr. Anderson, we talk with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear. He's part of a coalition of four groups fighting off a nuclear waste "parking lot" in West Texas. The late Texas Conservative Harold Simmons (funder of Kerry's "Swift Boat" affair) donated money to the Governor to get a nuclear dump site. Now they want to ship high level nuclear fuel rods from reactors all over America to this "temporary" site.
It has crappy protection from terrorism and sits right over the Ogallala Aquifer that waters the West.
I wrap up with my own look into a virtually unknown billionaire who funded Donald Trump bigly. The payback is Trump's climate hoax horse manure, and dismantling global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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