First hour: Does Al Gore help or hurt the climate conversation?
Second hour: Opera intervention
Al Gore is back at the center of the climate conversation. Is that a good thing? Some progressives fear that Gore -- perhaps unintentionally -- turned the climate issue into a political debate. Pragmatically, they worry that he'll push more fence-sitters into the denial camp. But Gore's fans say that he has helped give the issue the urgency it requires. Our guests will discuss it:
Seamus McGraw, author of Betting the Farm on a Drought
Susan Spencer, CEO of ROCSPOT and a former attendee of Gore's climate education conference
Linda Isaacson Fedele, Rochester People's Climate Coalition
In our second hour: The opera community has a lot going on, and by popular demand, we're staging an intervention. If you've resisted opera's charms, we'll see if we can figure out why, and how to turn you into an opera fan. Guests TBA.
