265) Mikaela Loach: Distinguishing ecofascism and dismantling white supremacy in environmentalism
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Mikaela Loach is a climate justice activist, co-host of The Yikes Podcast, and medical student based in Edinburgh.
Her work focuses on making activism spaces more inclusive and accessible, and as a Black woman, she is especially passionate about the importance of anti-racism work in the climate and sustainability movements.
In this podcast episode, Mikaela sheds light on the dangers of what can happen when white supremacy seeps into environmental activism; how narratives framing global population growth as environmental harms can perpetuate racism and economic injustice while overlooking the actual roots of our ecological breakdown; and more.
Featured music: American Dream by Raye Zaragoza
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| 1:28.6 | Something that I've seen a lot of comments on people posting Black Lives Matter stuff is like, |
| 1:32.0 | oh, don't make it political. And I'm like, everything that they were doing before was also |
| 1:34.9 | political. It's just that it doesn't, it doesn't make you uncomfortable. I think the thing that |
| 1:38.7 | people want to want to comment is like, don't make me uncomfortable. That's what they mean |
| 1:42.0 | when they say don't make this political. That's what they mean when they say don't make this play school. That was Michaela Loach, a climate justice activist, co-host of the Yikes |
| 1:51.4 | podcast and medical student based in Edinburgh. Her work focuses on making activism spaces |
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