Hot & Bothered: A Decade to Win

Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade.

Climate change activists in Washington, D.C. on June 19 (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

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 green infrastructure bill introduced by House Democrats; why dismantling the carceral state is key to climate politics; how the climate movement and the left more broadly has advanced in terms of contesting for power over the last decade; and why the zombie neoliberalism metaphor is, itself, undead.

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Summer syllabus

Democrats unveil $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan (Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill)

Latin America’s Green New Deal (Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos, NACLA Report on the Americas)

A Crisis Wasted (Reed Hundt, Simon & Schuster)

Kate: Why Abolishing ICE Is Good Climate Policy (In These Times)

Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg, Oxford University Press)

We, The Sovereign (Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Wiley)

Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 (Andy Horowitz, Harvard University Press)

Jamaal Bowman Set to Oust Rep. Eliot Engel in Major Progressive Power Grab (Aída Chávez, The Intercept)

Kate: Inside the Fight to Shape Biden’s Climate Policy (New Republic)

Colin: French city of Dunkirk tests out free transport – and it works (France 24)

Colin: Paris’s new public housing push aims to offset soaring rents (France 24)