Feeding the Climate Monster

In The Thick

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this rebroadcast episode from 2021, Maria and Julio are joined by Kendra Pierre-Louis, climate reporter with Gimlet, and Dallas Goldtooth, organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. They discuss how communities of color are the most impacted by climate disasters globally, and also how they are at the forefront of pushing for climate justice.

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This episode originally aired in September 2021.

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:22.8	Thank you.
0:23.8	Hey, in the thick familia, it's Julio here and we're taking a short summer break on
0:39.8	the podcast.
0:41.4	So we're going to reshare one of our favorite episodes that we recorded last September
0:47.0	about the climate crisis.
0:49.1	So when we did record this episode in 2021, we were living through raging wildfires,
0:56.3	hurricanes, massive flooding and the effects of extreme heat.
1:01.1	Now here we are in 2022 and we are having another hot summer.
1:06.3	We're seeing heat advisories or warnings affect the country.
1:11.4	In the United Kingdom, temperatures reached a record 104 degrees Fahrenheit and wildfires
1:17.2	have spread throughout Europe causing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
1:22.2	So this episode that we recorded last year in 2021 was ahead of COP26, which is a United
1:27.8	Nations Climate Change Conference where over 120 world leaders gathered at the conference
1:34.3	in November to try to address these urgent threats posed by climate change.
1:39.6	So at the end of that conference last year, there was extreme disappointment from world
1:44.7	leaders and activists that the agreements didn't go far enough.
1:48.2	And since then, in the United States at least, we've kind of regressed, as Maddie says,
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