This week on Everybody in the Pool, we're bringing you another independent voice in climate media, someone I am a huge fan of, on a topic I'm also super passionate about.
As I'm writing this, we just had the U.S. midterm elections, and climate didn't just survive the midterms. Climate issues won, all over the country, in races and ballot measures most of the political press had written off. But the political press still isn't covering climate aggressively, and as you'll hear in today's episode, it's not like all those Democrats who won were talking all that much about it either.
Emily Atkin founded HEATED in 2019 and runs it as a reader- and listener-funded operation, with no ads and no corporate money: an independently produced media operation doing accountability reporting on climate that almost nobody else is doing. She recorded the episode you're about to hear a few days before the election, and it's about what she calls climate hushing, how billionaire-backed centrist think tanks spent the last two years telling Democrats to stop saying "climate change" and talk about affordability instead.
But the midterms proved we can do two things at the same time. Oh, and by the way: the two things are totally, one hundred percent related. I mean, remember last week's episode, about gas prices?
Here's Emily Atkin, with "Why aren't Democrats talking about climate?"