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How to build an equitable and just climate future | Peggy Shepard

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Everyone has the right to a clean environment -- but major disparities exist when it comes to who faces the consequences of pollution. Environmental justice leader Peggy Shepard points to the disproportionate impact that hazardous environmental conditions have on Black, brown and Indigenous communities and challenges us to build a truly equitable future that turns "sacrifice zones" -- where community health is sacrificed for the sake of development -- into "green zones" that redress the legacy of pollution and harmful policies.

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0:00.0

It's Ted Talks, Ailey, I'm Elise Hugh.

0:07.2

Huge disparities exist when it comes to who has access to clean air, water, and soil.

0:12.9

Health hazards of pollution aren't spread evenly.

0:16.6

In her 2022 talk from Ted Countdown's New York Session, Environmental Justice Leader Peggy

0:22.1

Shepard describes how safer, cleaner communities must be seen through the lens of justice.

0:31.0

Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?

0:33.6

Let's talk about this war on white people.

0:35.3

That's a pro-quiling, it's good for you.

0:37.0

Bill the Keystone pipeline, deport illegals, build the wall.

0:40.4

I'm Katie Thornton, host of the divided dial, a new five-part series from WNYC's on the

0:46.4

media about how the American rights came to dominate talk radio and how one of the

0:52.1

American companies is launching a conservative media empire from the airwaves.

0:56.7

Listen every Tuesday and on the media feed.

1:01.4

Support for Ted Talks, Ailey comes from AirBnB.

1:04.2

Okay, every time you stay at an AirBnB, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually

1:10.3

be an AirBnB, could I rent it out?

1:12.9

And if I could, what would it earn?

1:15.0

I think about this sometimes, myself.

1:17.5

So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could

1:22.5

convert her empty barn space into a one-bedroom AirBnB.

1:26.9

How creative, right?

1:28.1

Now her extra income allows her to focus on her family as a new mom.

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