Episode 1145 • • 1:56:03 - 1:58:58
1145: Dumb Meat
New Consensus and the 25 Holocausts Climate Metric
Rihanna Gun-Wright, policy director for New Consensus and an ally of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, claimed on CNN that the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming represents "25 Holocausts" in terms of human deaths. The hosts mock the use of this extreme metric and the framing of climate change as the primary driver of all other social issues.