A Word: The Color of Climate Change

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As natural disasters like wildfires and floods ravage the country, a growing chorus of Americans is calling for action now to fight climate change. And Black environmentalists who’ve seen their communities suffer from environmental abuse and neglect for generations are pushing the issue to the top of the civil rights agenda. On today’s episode of A Word, Professor Robert Bullard, known as the “father of environmental justice,” speaks about the cost of environmental racism, and how a new generation is leading the fight to stop it. Guest: Robert Bullard, co-chair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, and the Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University Podcast production by Ahyiana Angel and Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Honda Civic CIVIC
0:03.3	Civic
0:04.8	Starts with a soft C
0:06.8	Ends on a hard C
0:08.6	A name with two sides for a car with two sides
0:12.2	The new Honda Civic Hybrid has a soft side with anti fatigue seats to help you feel less tired after a long drive
0:19.2	And a hard side with a firm platform for cornering and responsiveness
0:24.4	The new Civic Hybrid
0:26.4	Civic Honda the power of dreams
0:36.6	This is a word, a podcast from Slate
0:39.0	I'm your host Jason Johnson with endless wildfires and epic floods becoming routine
0:44.8	We're seeing the devastating consequences of climate change unfold in real time
0:49.8	And while America's green movement has traditionally had a white face
0:53.2	many black Americans have been grassroots leaders from the start
0:57.4	Most people don't think about pollution cutting across their neighborhoods
1:01.6	But for some people it's an everyday situation
1:04.6	The fight for environmental justice coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson, stay with us
1:14.8	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, impolitics and everything else
1:19.3	I'm your host Jason Johnson
1:20.8	I can't breathe
1:24.5	That phrase has become synonymous with the fight against police violence
1:28.3	But I'll also apply to another important civil rights issue
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