Class & Climate: The Politics of Electrification with Stephen Thomas

The David Suzuki Foundation’s Stephen Thomas discusses the political challenges and possibilities for building a truly green Canadian electricity grid.

Listen to the full conversation on the Perspectives Journal podcast, available to subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, and all other major podcast platforms.

Stephen Thomas is a climate campaigner, policy analyst, and engineer working on the front lines of Canada’s transition to a 100% zero-emissions electricity grid as the Clean Energy Manager for the David Suzuki Foundation.

For Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy, Green Economy Network National Convenor Em Thompson sits down with Stephen to discuss the politics of electrification and the challenges, and the opportunities for building a fully-connected, east-west electricity grid.

Class & Climate is a podcast series from Perspectives Journal and the Green Economy Network that maps how climate action can deliver jobs and long-term affordability for workers — while debunking myths that these goals are a zero-sum trade-off with a clean environment.

Listen to more episodes of ‘Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy’

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