Finding Hope for Women in the Climate Crisis
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate staff writer Rebecca Onion is joined by Grace Lynch, host of As She Rises, a podcast that centers the poems of artists around the world to explore the climate crisis. The pair talk about the dangerous impact climate change has on the lives of women—emotionally, physically, and, in some cases, as mothers. Is there hope? Depends on how you look at it.
In our Slate Plus “Is This Feminist” segment, Rebecca and Grace debate if “Bond girls” are feminist.
Recommendations:
Rebecca: The Trouble With White Women, by Kyla Schuller and the Netflix show Midnight Mass.
Grace: The podcasts Encyclopedia Womanica and Fall of Civilizations.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.7 | This is the waves. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the waves. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the waves. |
| 0:07.8 | This is the waves. |
| 0:08.5 | This is the waves. |
| 0:09.5 | This is the waves. |
| 0:10.2 | This is the waves. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the waves. |
| 0:18.1 | Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and what's going to happen to women as the climate keeps changing. |
| 0:24.1 | Every episode, you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds. |
| 0:28.4 | Today you've got me, Rebecca Onion, a staff writer for Slate. |
| 0:31.7 | And me. I'm Grace Lynch, senior producer at Wonder Media Network and host of the podcast as she rises, |
| 0:38.5 | which is a new show that tries to personalize the climate crisis through poetry, soundscapes, and the stories of local |
| 0:43.4 | activists. The problem of climate change is so big. So this is why I think I like your podcast so |
| 0:50.2 | much. It can be hard to wrap your arms around. And we've all heard a bunch of times about this |
| 0:56.8 | idea that the changes that are coming and that have already come are going to affect poorer |
| 1:01.7 | parts of the world in more intense ways. But there's also an argument that I find really |
| 1:07.9 | interesting to think about that climate change is a woman's issue. |
| 1:11.9 | Why am I interested in this? Well, I'm a woman and I have a climate and I care a lot about it. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm kidding. Of course, everybody has a climate. But I am really interested in the question of |
| 1:25.7 | vulnerability and climate and have been for years, but I feel like |
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