AmericasDemocrat.org Netcast - August 9, 2015

Published: Aug. 9, 2015, 2:47 p.m.

Climate change -- historian David Kennedy says it is is the biggest national security threat, and energy guru Michael Levi says it could be eased by judicious use of fracking.

 

Seventy years after the first and only military use of atomic bombs, historian David Kennedy says they proved not to be a useful weapon. And, he says, today’s biggest threat is not nuclear war but climate change! Climate change is on the mind of energy expert Michael Levi, who says that the benefits of President Obama’s new plan to restrict carbon emissions will exceed the costs. And Bill Press interviews North Carolina Congressman David Price on the Iran nuclear agreement.

 

David Kennedy

Historian David Kennedy says the biggest threat to national security is not terrorism, cyberwarfare or nuclear weapons … but climate change.

http://west.stanford.edu/people/kennedy

 

Michael Levi

Michael Levi, an expert on the effects of carbon emissions on climate change, says he doesn’t think the use of renewable energy will solve the whole problem.

http://www.cfr.org/experts/energy-geoeconomics/michael-a-levi/b11890

 

David Price

Bill Press and his guest, North Carolina Congressman David Price.

 

Jim Hightower

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