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The Realignment

513 | Alex Trembath: How America Can Build an Abundant Clean Energy Future

The Realignment

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Alex Trembath, Deputy Director of the Breakthrough Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Alex discuss the takeaways from Abundance 2024, the case for Ecomodernism, the rise and fall (and rise) of climate policy from An Inconvenient Truth to the Inflation Reduction Act, lessons from the clean energy space for other parts of the Abundance Agenda, and why blue states like California aren’t able to build clean energy, housing, and infrastructure as much as red states like Texas.

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0:00.0

Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.

0:02.8

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

0:09.8

Today's episode is a part of a two-part series I'm doing this week leading into the week leading to the election focused on the future.

0:18.6

I very much think the abundance agenda is the future.

0:21.3

I think the issues raised when it comes to

0:23.2

building, when it comes to challenges in the environment, and the material world are at

0:27.6

the center where our policy debates need to look like moving forward in so many areas

0:31.7

beyond the environment. That's everything from the Arsenal Democracy work that I do at the Hudson Institute.

0:36.2

Two questions of housing production and of course semiconductors. I'm chatting with Alex Trembath, he's the deputy director of the Breakthrough

0:44.8

Institute and he was one of the co-sponsors of the Abundance 2024 conference that I

0:49.3

MCed earlier this month. The episode that's gonna air on on Thursday is going to be with Steve Tullis for our monthly.

0:55.4

Marshall and Steve show that everyone enjoys so much. He's going to focus on his articulation of where the abundance agenda moves going forward.

1:02.4

We're going to come back moving into the

1:04.7

election focusing more on the specific realignment topics but I can just

1:08.1

personally say at a certain point we've rehashed all the questions of the

1:11.5

diploma divide, questions about race and

1:13.9

gender and the American protocol system. So focusing on where people who are in

1:17.8

this audience should focus their attention moving forward is at the key. So hope

1:21.5

you all enjoy this conversation with Alex on energy, climate and of course the abundance

1:26.6

agenda.

1:27.6

Huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation for supporting the work of this podcast.

1:36.0

Alex Trembath, welcome to the realignment. It's a real pleasure to be here, Marshall, thanks.

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