Detroit's climate crisis -- and how to build a resilient future everywhere | Anika Goss
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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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How can cities become resilient to the shocks of climate change? As a leading force behind Detroit's ongoing revitalization, Anika Goss spends a lot of time thinking about this question. Connecting the city's industrial past to its sustainable future, she explores the link between climate vulnerability and economic inequity, offering a vision for responding to both challenges at once.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily. |
| 0:13.7 | The world is full of intersections. |
| 0:16.4 | For instance, climate vulnerability and poverty intersect. |
| 0:20.8 | City visionary Anika Goss lays that out with clarity in her 2023 talk from the Ted Countdown |
| 0:26.1 | Summit in Detroit. |
| 0:28.3 | After a sponsor message, she offers a vision for responding to climate change and economic |
| 0:33.9 | inequity at the same time. |
| 0:38.7 | I am a third-generation Detroiter. |
| 0:42.4 | My grandmother moved to Detroit in 1936 during the Great Migration and brought all of her |
| 0:50.5 | southern ways with her. |
| 0:53.0 | She had an abundant garden with flowers for butterflies and honeybees and birds. |
| 1:01.0 | She preferred to take the bus to Eastern Market to purchase all of her meat just to make |
| 1:07.1 | sure that it was fresh. |
| 1:09.3 | She owned a home on Mendoza Street and knew that home ownership would create wealth and |
| 1:15.7 | opportunity for her growing family. |
| 1:19.3 | My family story is not an unusual Detroit story and up until the late 1950s Detroit was |
| 1:27.1 | a haven for middle-class families living in neighborhoods where there was green space |
| 1:34.4 | and community connectivity and opportunity. |
| 1:38.8 | But my grandmother's Detroit is not the Detroit that I live in today. |
| 1:43.3 | The Detroit today is not sustainable. |
| 1:47.5 | 84% of Detroiters identify as black or Latino and 5% are foreign-born. |
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