All Quiet on the Climate Front
5/14/202629 min
The fight against climate change has never been more urgent, but no one in US politics wants to talk about it anymore. And maybe they shouldn’t. This episode was produced by Ariana Aspuru, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. The sun setting behind a fog bank in San Diego as an extreme heat warning takes effect. Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsSean Rameswaram· Host0:00
Summer's around the corner. Heat waves are gonna be freaking us out. It's as good a time as any to check in on climate change here at Today Explained from Vox. So let's start with the EPA. [upbeat music] The Environmental Protection Agency was signed into existence by a Republican, Richard Nixon. Can you believe? This was way back in 1970 when it was okay for the right to care about the planet. After a massive oil spill off the California coast, there was a ton of movement around environmental stewardship in this country. We had our first Earth Day, the Clean Air Act passed with only one person in all of Congress voting no, and that same Congress, along with Tricky Dick, created the EPA. 56 years later, in this Anthropocene era of ours, another Republican administration is doing everything in its power to destroy the EPA, all while we civilians contend with the effects of human-caused climate change. That story is coming up on the show today.
Speaker 10:55
Why send your docs and hope they'll land? Share a PDF space from Acrobat, they'll understand. A custom intro that's so clear. An audio summary that says what they need to hear. Mm. An AI assistant that makes it all click, so they'll understand it real good, real quick. Ain't just some files on the screen. It's exactly what your clients need to see. Hey. You can do that, do that, do that, do that with Acrobat.
Speaker 21:25
Learn more at adobe.com/dothatwithacrobat.