Ep. 88 - The Climate Crisis

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If you don’t care about the climate crisis, it might be the case that you don’t fully understand what’s ahead and how it impacts every single one of us – particularly the most marginalized nations and communities of the world. We need all hands on deck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For most of my life, I have fought primarily against issues like police brutality and white
0:09.0	supremacy and mass incarceration, and I still do, and I always will be fighting against those things.
0:15.6	And there's a tendency for some people to think that global warming and environmentalism and
0:21.0	the climate change issues, that those are white issues for privileged white people.
0:28.0	And today I need to unpack and explain where that notion comes from.
0:33.0	And then I want to help us understand why the climate crisis needs to be high on all of our list of the things that we care for and fight for every single day. This is Sean King
0:47.0	and you are listening to The Breakdown.
0:50.0	Breakdown.
0:53.0	The breakdown.
0:54.0	The breakdown.
0:55.0	The breakdown.
0:56.0	The breakdown.
0:57.0	You know the saying that it's hard to see the forest for the trees.
1:07.0	As a kid I didn't really know what that meant.
1:10.0	What it means is sometimes it's hard to see the big picture, it's hard to see the whole forest, when all you can
1:19.8	see are the trees or the details that are right in front of your face.
1:25.0	And on this podcast, I speak a lot about police brutality.
1:30.0	I speak about mass incarceration and white supremacy and
1:33.6	bigotry and voting rights and civil rights and all of the issues that fall
1:39.1	under those banners.
1:41.0	And I need to make a point today about that, but about something that's necessary that we need to talk about that needs to be understood.
1:51.0	Because just like it's hard to see the forest for the trees it is so
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