Obama’s Response to Gulf Oil Disaster; Bonn Climate Talks & ‘Extreme Energy’
June 8th, 2010
From the EPA to the Department of the Interior to the President himself – a review how the Obama Administration is handling the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Host Daphne Wysham speaks to Kieran Suckling, the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Then, an update on the UN climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany with Rachel Smolker, the co-director of BioFuel Watch and Janet Redman, the co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
And a presentation by author Michael Klare on the follies of our relentless pursuit of extreme energy. Klare’s latest book is Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet.
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