Joining us to discuss his new book, "Climate Radicals: Why our Environmental Politics Isn't Working," Cameron Abadi will discuss tensions between climate policy and democracy, and how those tensions are being resolved in increasingly radical ways. Germany should have been a global leader in combating climate change — its voters consider it a major issue and back the world’s most powerful Green Party. Yet, Germany’s climate policies have been disappointing. What happened?

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​​​​​​Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy and co-host of FP’s Ones and Tooze podcast. He previously worked at the New Republic and Foreign Affairs and as a correspondent in Germany and Iran. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the NewYorker, the New Republic, and Der Spiegel.

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“Climate action may seem obvious, but that doesn’t make it easy. Cameron Abadi’s illuminating case study is also a distressing reckoning: why, as the crisis of warming intensifies, are those calling attention to its urgency increasingly mocked, vilified, and marginalized? This book is a necessary accounting.” —David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

“Why does radical protest not lead to policy change? How can real policy change happen without movement on the streets? As a highly original guide to climate politics, Abadi’s Climate Radicals, comparing Biden’s United States and climate-friendly Germany, spurs us to think afresh about democracy, science and the climate crisis. Abadi’s new book is essential reading.” —Adam Tooze, professor of history, Columbia University, author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World

“Climate Radicals is an eye-opening book. When reading it, I had an almost physical sensation of the most popular cliches of climate politics starting to melt down.” —Ivan Krastev, author of The Light That Failed
 

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