Finding Your Inner Erin Brockovich
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
It’s been more than 20 years since the movie Erin Brockovich hit the big screen. In that time, the real-life Erin Brockovich has become one of the most famous environmental activists worldwide.
In today’s episode, Erin and Marianne discuss finding the courage within ourselves to truly make a difference in the world, the worsening water crisis in this country and her new book, Superman’s Not Coming.
After the interview Marianne takes listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | We've got the courage, we've got the heart, we've got the brain. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we are we the people. |
| 0:07.0 | Now we need to activate that again and our conversations about things that matter. |
| 0:34.7 | Today's conversation matters a lot because it has to do with the |
| 0:37.8 | water, the water that we drink, the water that we bathe in, the water that we and our |
| 0:42.9 | children swim in. Obviously we want to care about the oceans, we want to care |
| 0:47.9 | about all the waters of the world, but this has to do with a very specific water |
| 0:51.9 | crisis here in the United States today. |
| 0:55.4 | I know if you're old enough, you probably saw the movie Aaron Brockovich. |
| 0:59.2 | That came out 20 years ago now. |
| 1:01.8 | If you have not seen the movie, I suggest that you run and see it. |
| 1:05.6 | It was a great film directed by Steven Soderberg, and Julia Roberts won a very well-deserved Oscar for Best Actress |
| 1:12.2 | that year, playing a very real character, a character that you were going to meet shortly, |
| 1:17.6 | named Aaron Brockovich. And the story of what happened in Hinkley, California, when in 1996, |
| 1:25.0 | PG&E had to pay $333 million, |
| 1:30.3 | the largest settlement ever to over 600 plaintiffs |
| 1:34.3 | who had been poisoned by chromium 6 in their water. |
| 1:38.3 | Now, we all saw that movie, yay, Aaron Brockovich. |
| 1:42.3 | We all love the stories of the heroes that stand up to the big corporate polluters, the big corporate forces that make it difficult, that make people sick, that hurt people in their workplace or whatever. |
| 1:57.1 | But I think that there's also an awakening to the fact that this is not just about a single |
| 2:02.0 | case here or a single case there. |
| 2:04.1 | This is about the corruption of our entire system, our entire governmental system, our entire |
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