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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Bonus: From Action to Empathy to Impact

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

Persephonica

Environment, Society, Business, Current Affairs, News, Policy, Planet, Society & Culture, Science, Energy, Finance, Climate, Green

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of Outrage + Optimism, where we examine issues at the forefront of the climate crisis, interview change-makers, and transform our anger into productive dialogue about building a sustainable future.

 Okezue Bell,  a high school senior, activist and a social entrepreneur, is the co-founder of Fidutam, a SIM card based application that provides microloans to low infrastructure and unbanked communities, and the co-inventor of something called WeArm, which is a low cost 3D printed human like prosthetic arm for below the elbow amputees.

Christiana and Tom caught up with him to hear more about his work in the climate space, how he views the current situation and his ideas for a clear solution driven approach to tackling the climate crisis.

 

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Outrage Optimism, I'm Tom Ravikkarnak.

0:15.6

So we're bringing you a different kind of conversation today.

0:18.3

A case away belt is a high school senior, an activist and a social entrepreneur, a Nigerian

0:24.3

American.

0:25.3

With the founder of Vidutam, a SIM card based application that provides micro loans to

0:30.5

low infrastructure and unbanked communities and the inventor of something called VR, which

0:35.4

is a low cost 3D printed human-like, prosthetic arm for below the elbow and putes.

0:42.2

So we've thought it would be fun to introduce you to him as well, so we're going to have

0:45.4

a broad conversation with him about his experience, how he sees the world, and we'll see where

0:49.8

it goes.

0:55.3

So, OK, so thank you so much for joining us on Outrage and Optimism today, and it's

1:07.4

pretty impressive how a 17-year-old just barely 17 has the CV that you do, clearly you

1:14.6

don't take any time to sleep or eat, you're just working the whole time.

1:21.6

Tom has already introduced all of the different areas in which you've been active, OK,

1:27.4

this way.

1:28.4

But today, we wanted to invite you to focus not necessarily on prosthetics where you've

1:36.4

done such a brilliant job, or in fact, even on your financial SIM card application.

1:44.0

But rather, because we are in the climate space and we know that you've been to at least

1:49.9

one cop, I don't know if you've been to several, we wanted to ask you from your perspective,

1:57.4

how do climate change efforts look like to you?

2:03.0

Yes, we're far behind.

2:05.1

Yes, we have these huge, huge heat waves now raging across the world.

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