The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Matt Yglesias
An Exclusive The Weekly Anthropocene Interview
Matt Yglesias is a highly influential journalist and Democratic Party thought leader, who among other achievements helped shape America’s greatest-ever climate legislation: the Inflation Reduction Act.
In the interview below, this writer’s questions and comments are in bold, Mr. Yglesias’ words are in regular text, and extra clarification (links, etc) added after the interview are in bold italics or footnotes.
What are your thoughts on your incredible and historic role in inspiring the current form of the Inflation Reduction Act? Context for readers: Bloomberg reported in February that Mr. Yglesias’ landmark policy proposal was a key influence for the Biden Administration in shaping the IRA. What does it feel like to have helped personally to shape the greatest-ever victory in US climate policy?
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