New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood with around 200 protesters in Representative Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding a Green New Deal to get to 100 percent renewables because our lives depend on it.
Guest: Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning journalist who writes for the Nation, Harper’s, The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and The Economist. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis. His latest piece in the Nation is Can the Blue Wave Deliver a Green New Deal?
Then, we talk to about the new report Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions.
Guest: Eric C. Franklin is Research Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and co-author of the report that appeared in scientific journal the Nature Climate Change.