What If We Get It Right? Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Teams Up With Bill McKibben to Focus on the Midterm Elections

The What If We Get it Right? podcast is a show about climate solutions, about what we need to do to address the climate crisis, and how to make those things happen — from changing laws, to electrifying buildings, to improving fashion and media. 

Each week an expert guest joins host Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson to break it down, delightfully, and help us all envision what getting right on climate looks like, so we can reel that vision into reality.

For the fifth season, Johnson is teaming up with author and long-time climate activist Bill McKibben to host some of the most insightful and urgent conversations possible, geared specifically toward putting climate justice and the environment front-and-center in time for the U.S. midterm elections this November.

From the podcast announcement:

“Season 5 of the What If We Get It Right? podcast is dedicated to environmental issues in the midterm elections — what’s at stake and how the planet can win. We are going to get into it. Perhaps grappling with this requires a dynamic duo? Well, it can’t hurt! I’m thrilled to be co-hosting this season with the magnificent and wise journalist, activist, and OG climate legend Bill McKibben. We’ve been having a blast recording the episodes and can’t wait to share them with you.”

About the Hosts:

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. She is co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. Ayana authored The New York Times bestseller What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, work that is carried on with her newsletter and podcast.

Bill McKibben is co-founder of Third Act, which mobilizes people over sixty for action on climate and justice. He’s the author of The End of Nature and twenty other books, and has received numerous honors, including the Right Livelihood Award and Gandhi Peace Prize. 

Stream the first five episodes below: 

Season Five Trailer (Bonus Recorded Livestream with Naomi Klein)

Episide 1: Carbon Hushing, EVs, and Creating the Carbon Wave with Professor Leah Stokes

Episode 2: Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder of Environmental Voter Project

Episode 3: Tom Mattzie, CEO of Clean Choice Energy

Episode 4: REWIND with Stacey Abrams

Episode 5: Louise Yeung, New York City’s Chief Climate Officer

Go Deeper:

• Purchase Johnson’s New York Times bestselling book, What If We Get it Right? (2024)
  
• Donate to the Environmental Voter Project.
  
• Research and vote for candidates that best align with your values around protecting the environment and climate action.