81. Climate Justice and Racial Justice with David Lammy
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Around the world In 2020, we saw an unprecedented rise in activism surrounding Black Lives Matter and the call for racial and social justice. But if there’s one enormous takeaway for those marching for the climate, it is that our fight for climate justice is inextricably linked to our fight for racial justice.
BIPOC have suffered, are suffering, and will continue to disproportionately suffer the harshest effects of climate change. Unacceptable. So what clear actions can organizations, individuals, and institutions take to rectify this massive injustice? Taking us to the heart of the matter this week is our guest, British MP David Lammy.
David Lammy was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before entering politics. He has served as the MP for Tottenham since 2000 and as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet since 2020. David is one of Parliament’s most prominent and successful campaigners for social justice. His recent TED Talk titled “Climate Justice Can’t Happen Without Racial Justice” has amassed millions of views and has become required viewing for anyone involved in climate action.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrage and Optimism, I'm Tom Ravikarnak. |
| 0:16.0 | And it is the end of the year. |
| 0:17.8 | And I am Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:19.5 | This week we have big news out of Costa Rica and on the progress towards meeting the Paris |
| 0:25.2 | Agreement. |
| 0:26.2 | We speak to David Lamy, member of Parliament for Tottenham and we have music from Black |
| 0:31.2 | Out Problems. |
| 0:32.2 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:47.2 | So we've got some big news for you this week in terms of the global progress towards |
| 0:51.8 | meeting the Paris Agreement, which some of you may have heard, but we'll come to that |
| 0:54.4 | in a minute. |
| 0:55.4 | But first of all, there's also been a big milestone passed this week by the only country |
| 1:00.2 | in the world to have abolished its national army and we may have mentioned this country |
| 1:03.8 | before on the podcast, but I don't want to make any of this. |
| 1:06.6 | I've seen one. |
| 1:07.6 | I've seen one. |
| 1:08.6 | I've seen one. |
| 1:09.6 | I've seen one. |
| 1:10.6 | I've seen one. |
| 1:11.6 | I've seen one. |
| 1:12.6 | I wonder which one that is. |
| 1:13.6 | It was a bit of a low point on Costa Rica last week. |
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