#60: The Spotted Owl or: How the Right Won the Working Class

Summary: <p>Judi Bari’s effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today? </p> <p>Cited teams up with Dissent’s <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/hot-bothered">Hot and Bothered</a> podcast and the <a href="http://www.pics.uvic.ca/">Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions</a> to tell the story of tree spiking, a Texas millionaire, and the Northern Spotted Owl.</p> <p>In this hour we look at the jobs vs. environment problem and explore how forest management might be able to mitigate climate change on a massive scale. with documentary filmmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/marylizthomson?lang=en">Mary Liz Thomson</a>, University of Oregon sociology professor <a href="http://johnbellamyfoster.org">John Bellamy Foster</a>, and independent forester <a href="http://www.silvafor.org/">Herb Hammond</a>.</p>