What the US government knew about climate change / James Gustave Speth
Jeff Dorchen
Getting To The (Power) Bottom Of Ripley
Jeff is fascinated by the popularity of Patricia Highsmith's character, Tom Ripley. How did such a monster come to be such an accurate reflection of our national shame, the President?
Read the transcript, without Jeff being distracted by dogs barking, here:
James Gustave Speth
No time left: On 50 years of US government complicity in the climate crisis.
James Gustav Speth on five decades of US government knowledge of climate change and promotion of the fossil fuel industry, a legal challenge to power from children growing up in the shadow of catastrophe, and his book They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis from MIT Press.
