BEST OF THE BEST: It’s Getting Hot in Here, and America’s Poor Are Dying Faster Than Everyone Else

In Episode 50, Quinn & Brian discussed: How D.C. and LA are dealing with urban heat issues.

Our guests are Yesim Sayin Taylor and Molly Peterson. Yesim is the founding Executive Director of the D.C. Policy Center and Molly is a renowned reporter focusing on the environment and climate change (and our first returning guest!).

We all remember when Nelly said, “It’s getting hot in herre,” but not a lot of people remember the whole verse: “It’s getting hot in herre, so take off all your clothes / all of the poor minorities in America are suffering and dying before everybody else / Uh, uh, uh, let it hang all out.” But it’s a shame, really, because if we’d just paid more attention to Nelly’s important message back in 2002, maybe we wouldn’t be facing this problem today.

Trump’s Book Club:

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns

Links:

Learn more at https://www.dcpolicycenter.org

Yesim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesimsy

Check out https://pactio.us/host/molly-peterson

Molly on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mollydacious

Greater Greater Washington: https://ggwash.org

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Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com