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The Climate Crisis: An Interchat with Ben Plowden

What has to change inside government before anything changes on the street?

In today's Interchat with ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐—–๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ณ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜, we discuss the machinery of government, why combined authorities should never be treated as a single category and the local transport authorities now spending 70% of their budgets on social care.

We also discuss my own despair about the climate crisis - and Ben's rather more useful answer to it.

What has to change inside government before anything changes on the street?

In today's Interchat with ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐—–๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ณ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜, we discuss the machinery of government, why combined authorities should never be treated as a single category and the local transport authorities now spending 70% of their budgets on social care.

We also discuss my own despair about the climate crisis - and Ben's rather more useful answer to it.

Interchats are a series of short conversations recorded on the conference floor at Interchange 26 in Manchester.

The Climate Crisis: An Interchat with Ben Plowden
Thomas Ableman

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