KC Golden, Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Solutions in Seattle, joins host Ginny Wolff for a discussion of how we must, and how we can, meet the daunting challenges of climate change. Starting with describing the impact of attending the Paris Climate Conference last year, KC Golden goes on to catalogue the numerous ways the Pacific NW, despite lack of federal political leadership, is already transitioning away from fossil fuels, and towards a clean energy economy. KC addresses how feelings of complicity, hypocrisy, shame and futility serve to silence us and keep us complacent as users of fossil fuels. He tackles the particular problems of communities such as those in Skagit County which are economically dependent on the fossil fuel industry, emphasizing the importance of citizen engagement in developing clean energy alternatives and policies that support a "just transition" from an economy dependent on fossil fuels to one supported by renewable energy.
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