Joining us to discuss his new book, "Climate Radicals: Why our Environmental Politics Isn't Working," Cameron Abadi discusses 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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