Colette Pichon Battle — “Placed Here, In This Calling”

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The ebb and flow of the Bayou was a background rhythm in her childhood to every aspect of life. She did not ever imagine in that childhood that she would one day be known as a “climate activist.” To be with Colette, and experience her brilliance of mind and spirit and action, is to open up all the ways the words we use and the stories we tell about the transformation of the natural world that is upon us blunt us to the courage we’re called to and the joy we must nurture as our primary energy and motivation. She is a vivid embodiment, too, of the new forms societal shift is taking in our world — led by visionary pragmatists close to the ground, in particular places, persistently and lovingly learning and leading the way for us all.

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0:00.0	On Being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation,
0:04.6	funding research and catalyzing conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder.
0:09.7	Learn about the latest discoveries in the science of hope and optimism, forgiveness and free will at
0:15.2	Templeton.org. Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.
0:23.0	She can trace her people back centuries and they're belonging on that land with a remarkable
0:28.4	intimacy and delight. I was stunned to learn as I prepared for this conversation that Louisiana
0:34.9	alone holds 40% of the wetlands of the United States. The ebb and flow of the bayou was a background
0:42.6	rhythm in Colette's childhood to every aspect of life. She did not ever imagine in that childhood
0:49.4	that she would one day be known as a climate activist. And to be clear, that phrase doesn't
0:55.6	begin to describe her vision and her gifts, her work and her callings. Indeed, to be with Colette
1:03.2	and experience her brilliance of mind and spirit and action is to open up all the ways the
1:09.8	words we use and the stories we tell about the transformation of the natural world that is upon us,
1:16.2	blunt us to the courage we're called to and the joy we must nurture as our primary energy and
1:22.6	motivation. Colette Pichon Battle is a vivid embodiment too of the new forms societal shift is
1:30.0	taking in our world, led by visionary pragmatists close to the ground in particular places
1:37.0	persistently and lovingly learning and leading the way for us all.
1:42.0	I'm Christa Tippett and this is on being. Colette Pichon Battle is co-executive director of the
1:54.2	Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, which influences realms from equitable disaster recovery
2:00.6	to global migration, from community economic development to climate justice and energy democracy.
2:07.0	She founded that center in the wake of Hurricane Katrina of 2005, which she has described as a crack
2:14.1	in the universe. Katrina was on some level a front edge of a transformation we are all experiencing
2:21.2	in some way in the places we love and come from. The Great Northern Festival, which brought
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