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Hot & Bothered: A Dissent Climate Podcast

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A podcast on climate politics for the 99%, brought to you by Dissent magazine.

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

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Hot & Bothered: A Glide Path to Ruin

November 14th, 2020

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Ten days out from Election Day, it looks like the worst has been averted. A presidential candidate who ran on the most ambitious climate …

Hot & Bothered: A Decade to Win

June 25th, 2020

56:00

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 …

Hot & Bothered: An Abolitionist Green New Deal, with Jasson Perez

June 18th, 2020

56:29

The growing call to defund the police is inextricable from a wider push to democratize our institutions—from city governments up to the Federal …

Hot & Bothered: Putting Racial Justice First, with Patrick Houston

June 11th, 2020

1:01:19

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 …

Hot & Bothered: Why Defunding the Police is Key to a Just Transition, with J. Mijin Cha

June 4th, 2020

55:54

As uprisings against police violence and for black liberation have swept the nation over the past ten days, the climate movement has taken note. …

Hot & Bothered: Has the Fracking Bubble Finally Burst? with Bethany McLean

May 28th, 2020

1:07:07

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 …

Hot & Bothered: Designing a Green New Deal, with Billy Fleming

May 21st, 2020

1:03:51

The New Deal is often remembered for bringing the United States Social Security, the Works Progress Administration, and a blossoming of working-class …

Hot & Bothered: A Climate Story to Win a Multiracial Majority, with Mary Annaïse Heglar

May 14th, 2020

59:05

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast: A New Commonwealth, with Jedediah Britton-Purdy

May 7th, 2020

1:13:02

From crocus blooms to interstates, the material world we live in sets the conditions for our politics. What would it take to establish collective, …

Hot & Bothered Podcast: Debt vs. Democracy, with Astra Taylor

April 30th, 2020

1:08:56

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid

April 23rd, 2020

1:01:24

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel

April 16th, 2020

1:04:09

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast: Climate Politics in the Time of Coronavirus

April 9th, 2020

37:43

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 …

Announcing Hot & Bothered Season 2: Pandemic Edition

April 8th, 2020

2:34

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 …

Hot & Bothered: Bold Visions for a Green New Deal

April 4th, 2020

2:08:15

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 …

Hot & Bothered: Radical Pragmatism

April 3rd, 2020

1:47:07

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 …

Hot & Bothered: Beyond the New Deal

April 2nd, 2020

2:10:17

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 …

Hot & Bothered: Building Power, with Naomi Klein, Jane McAlevey, and Julian Brave NoiseCat

April 1st, 2020

1:32:13

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast: What the Climate Doomsayers Get Wrong

October 23rd, 2018

1:02:16

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 …

What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like?

December 14th, 2017

35:26

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 …

Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics

November 17th, 2017

59:07

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #11: A Just Transition for New York State? With Franchelle Hart

February 15th, 2017

49:35

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #10: Into the Abyss

January 20th, 2017

1:23:12

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #9: A Holiday Gift for Climate Wonks, with Kevin Ummel

December 21st, 2016

1:09:12

Daniel’s map for “Carboniferous” in “Nonstop Metropolis: A New York Atlas” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (University of California …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #8: Why Climate Justice Means Racial Justice, with Dawn Phillips

December 12th, 2016

1:03:25

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #7: What Trump’s Victory Means for the Climate Movement

November 13th, 2016

1:01:50

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #6: Taking Back Power, with James Angel

November 5th, 2016

51:13

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #5: Time for a Green New Deal, with Robert Pollin

October 13th, 2016

1:09:17

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #4: Resisting Oil in the Niger Delta, with Ken Henshaw

August 17th, 2016

53:08

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #3: How Tipping Points Actually Work—And Why It’s Not Over Yet, with Michael Mann

July 13th, 2016

49:46

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 …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #2: System Change on a Deadline, with Naomi Klein

June 2nd, 2016

12:01

In the second episode of Hot & Bothered, we have an extended conversation with Naomi Klein—author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate—about the struggle to build …

Hot & Bothered Podcast #1: Breaking Free from Fossil Fuels, with Bill McKibben and Tara Houska

May 19th, 2016

54:26

In the inaugural episode of Hot & Bothered, we tackle the growing fight against fossil fuel extraction. What are the latest developments in this escalating movement? Is fracking even worse than we thought? How are …

Hot & Bothered Pilot Episode: After Paris, What’s Next?

January 13th, 2016

For six years, governments and environmentalists the world over steeled themselves for the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris, the landmark UN climate talks tasked with setting humanity on the path toward a low-carbon …

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