Episode 413 - "The Geopolitical Bargain of the Century" (w/ Dr. Fadhel Kaboub)

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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From time to time there's an interview that fundamentally alters and enriches my understanding of how the world works. This is one of them. Professor of Economics at Denison University Fadhel Kaboub returns to Bad Faith to explain how developing Africa may be the key to the climate crisis as well as to the prosperity of a billion comrades on the continent -- but significant political barriers are in the way. Dr. Kaboub explains how America is failing catastrophically to stop climate change, how China shows a different path forward, and why anticapitalist global solidarity movements are necessary to save us all.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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0:00.0	The So, I'm very glad to invite back to Bad Faith Podcast Dr. Fidel Caboob.
0:37.4	He is an associate professor of economics at Denison University and the president of
0:41.9	the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.
0:45.0	He is the author of Global South Perspectives on Substack
0:48.0	and also a member of the Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development.
0:52.0	He is also the Senior Advisor. group on Just Transition and Development.
0:52.5	He is also the senior advisor with Power Shift Africa.
0:56.4	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:58.7	Thanks for having you back.
0:59.7	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:00.9	It is a real pleasure.
1:02.4	There's so much going on right now with respect to frankly the now over a year-long conflict in Gaza and the broadening war in the Middle East that it can be tempting to not drill down on ongoing
1:17.4	more long-term crises and the environment is one of them.
1:20.8	And recent news events with the Hurricane Helene and the devastating damage that it's done to Appalachia, a part of the country that is not used to having to withstand the kind of hurricane damage that is more associated with more coastal living
1:34.3	has brought that issue back to the fore after what feels like a real hiatus and
1:38.9	people caring about the environment and for me personally someone who was very focused on electoral politics at this
1:46.1	moment I can't help but feel the irony of the environment being one of the key issues
1:52.0	that was used as a cudgel to get skeptical sort of burning
1:56.6	affiliated leftist back on board with voting for Democrats back in 2020.
2:01.6	They said the climate crisis was of paramount importance.
2:04.3	Donald Trump was obviously going to be disastrous for it and perhaps less obviously from
2:08.8	my perspective, Joe Biden was going to be a boon for climate progress.
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