'BradCast' 12/6/2019: (Guest: American Prospect's David Dayen)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Despite claims that impeachment will be a "disaster" for Democrats, it appears House Republicans are jumping ship in advance of 2020. Three more GOP House members announced they will not seek re-election, bringing the total to 19, with potentially more such announcements to come. Then: new warnings are quietly mounting that our climate emergency could break not just the U.S. bank, but the entire world economy -- again -- with a climate-fueled collapse that could make the 2008 Great Recession look like a picnic. DAVID DAYEN, financial journalist and Executive Editor of The American Prospect, discusses the politics, policy and possibilities of Green New Deal legislation, fleshed out in a special, landmark edition of the magazine expansively devoted to every aspect of climate action, tapping an astonishing array of experts, climate leaders, and reporters showing "it's practical, and it's feasible, and it not only can be done, it must be done."\xa0 Dayen says the practical, step-by-step blueprint shows how to move the U.S. to a carbon-free economy \u2013 how we already have the technology on hand today, and how doing so will actually enhance growth, equalize the economy, and create jobs, "especially those in places that were hardest hit by the toxicity of the environment to this point." He also has a wake-up call on the failure of U.S. financial regulators to seriously examine the extraordinary disruption to the economy of a potential climate-fueled financial meltdown from climate catastrophe, or the costs of mitigating it. Dayen notes the unprecedented breadth of TAP's coverage, from virtually every angle, has actually made him more hopeful, not less, about our ability to achieve the radical change called for by GND, and the greener -- and safer, and more livable -- future it could bring...