Breathing While Black in America
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week: as anger over police brutality explodes into the once-empty streets, we tackle an equally oppressive force for black Americans: environmental racism.
Coronavirus has exposed an unsettling reality for black and brown people, who are dying at higher rates in the country’s most polluted communities. We’re suddenly talking again about structural racism in policing and criminal justice. But the story of race, energy and the environment is also very important to understanding the anger of the moment.
We’re going to speak with a seasoned lawyer and organizer, who is working on the “mass melanization” of the environmental movement: Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, the North America Director for 350.org
Later in the show: if people lose their jobs and can’t pay their bills, what does that mean for their safety in a summer heat wave? And what does it mean for the financial health of utilities?
Finally, a new approach to residential demand response. Why are Consumers Energy, Uplight and Google giving away 100,000 free smart thermostats?
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- VOX: One reason why coronavirus is hitting black Americans the hardest
- NY Times: In the Shadows of America’s Smokestacks, Virus is one More Deadly Risk
- AP: 'Death By Racism': Part of America's DNA From the Start?
- LA Times Boiling Point: Pandemic. Heat. And for the most vulnerable, no A/C
- Gizmodo: Coronavirus, Summer Heat, and Poverty Could Create a 'Triple Whammy'
- GTM: Can Free Smart Thermostats Get Homeowners to Enroll in Summertime Demand Response?
- GTM: Residential Demand Response to Play Key Role Managing US Load This Summer
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| 0:00.0 | The serving its customers around the world. |
| 0:12.6 | Sungrow has also leveraged its extensive network across the US to distribute face masks |
| 0:16.8 | to communities in need. |
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| 0:55.6 | From Green Tech Media this this is the Energy Gang. Weekly debates and discussions about the fast-changing world of energy. I'm Stephen Lacy. Welcome. |
| 1:10.0 | This week, as anger over police brutality explodes into the once empty streets |
| 1:14.8 | we tackle an equally oppressive force for black Americans, environmental racism. |
| 1:19.2 | Coronavirus has exposed an unsettling reality for black and brown people who are dying at higher |
| 1:24.6 | rates in the country's most polluted communities. |
| 1:27.5 | We're going to speak with a seasoned lawyer and organizer who is working on the mass melonization of the environmental movement. |
| 1:34.1 | Well anything new emerge from this moment of pain. |
| 1:37.3 | Then if people lose their jobs and can't pay their bills, |
| 1:40.1 | what does that mean for their safety in a summer heat wave? |
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