#65: Environmental Racism
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement has major implications for the entire world, but President Trump’s choice reflects a deeper, largely unseen problem -- how environmental issues disproportionately affect communities of color in the U.S.
Hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a discussion on this and more with Terrell Starr, senior reporter at Foxtrot Alpha and Tara Houska, National Campaigns Director for Honor the Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is brought to you by 1,800 flowers. |
| 0:04.0 | Bismarck is a largely white community, |
| 0:06.0 | and they ended up saying no, we're going to reroute it somewhere else |
| 0:09.0 | because of concerns to the drinking water. |
| 0:11.0 | Our community matters. Your community doesn't. That's environmental racism. |
| 0:14.7 | Hey, welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Maria Inu Hosa, and I'm Julio Rico Guarela. |
| 0:26.4 | And joining us here in Harlem is our friend of the pod, Terrell Star. |
| 0:30.3 | He's a senior reporter at Fox Trump Alpha, which is a blog on defense, technology and policy from the folks over at |
| 0:36.3 | Chalopnik. Hey, Terrell, good to see you. |
| 0:38.9 | Same here. |
| 0:39.9 | Happy summer. |
| 0:40.6 | And joining us from Washington, D.C. back on the show, also a friend of the pod, is Tara |
| 0:45.1 | Hauska, she's National Campaign Director for Honor the Earth, which is an environmental |
| 0:49.6 | nonprofit organization. Welcome back, Tara. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:53.0 | All right, we're going to start this week by turning to London. |
| 0:55.6 | ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack there that killed seven people on Saturday. |
| 1:02.0 | Prime Minister Theresa May said this in a speech on Sunday. |
| 1:05.0 | But the whole of our country needs to come together to take on this extremism. |
| 1:10.0 | And we need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities, but as one truly United Kingdom. |
| 1:19.0 | So I think you can read this two ways. Either May is criticizing Britain for not helping to |
| 1:24.1 | integrate Muslim communities or she's criticizing Muslims for isolating themselves |
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