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Climate One

Activism, Art and Environmental Justice

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worldview and shift perspectives. This week we discuss how art and activism can work together to elevate some of the vast inequities that exist between those who benefit from fossil fuel energy and resource extraction and those who suffer its impacts. Guests: Ladonna Williams, Program Director, All Positives Possible Doug Harris, documentary filmmaker Christine Abadilla Fogarty, Associate Director, Global Museum at San Francisco State University Sofía Córdova, multimedia artist and musician For show notes and related links, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.9

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0:31.1

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Art, in its many forms, can play a powerful role in highlighting inequities.

0:39.4

I think George Floyd and Brianna Taylor really tipped the scales for us, and really the gist of

0:45.4

the exhibit is climate justice is racial justice. Art can also provide new ways of thinking

0:51.3

and viewing ourselves in relationship to the Earth.

0:54.8

If we can imagine the total destruction of everything we know, every system that binds us,

1:00.0

then even if it's after complete collapse, we can start a new.

1:05.2

As we focus on reducing emissions and switching to green energy, it's essential that we also

1:09.9

make the future more just and not

1:12.1

treat some communities as disposable.

1:14.9

We have to address the injustices that have happened historically in order for us to move

1:21.2

forward and address these issues.

1:24.0

Activism, art, and environmental justice.

1:27.0

Up next on Climate One.

1:30.3

On this show, we often try to shine a light on the vast inequities that exist between those

1:35.8

who benefit from extracting and burning fossil fuels and those who suffer its impacts first

1:41.5

and worst. Art offers a lens for exploring energy and mineral extraction

1:46.8

and challenging audiences' worldviews in ways that can be subtle and disturbing. With that in mind,

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