How will climate and equity be built into America's economic recovery?

Climate One Conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary, people who are in power and people who are disempowered.

I'm Greg Dalton.

The COVID-19 shutdown has hit women and minorities hardest, with Latina and black women in low-paying jobs like housekeeping seeing the highest levels of unemployment.

70 to 90% of frontline workers are women relative to 50% of women in the workforce.

So, I mean, the differentials are substantial and magnified in a

pandemic. Dr. Julie Pullen is Director of Product with Jupiter Intelligence, a startup delivering

neighborhood scale projections of weather, water, and climate impacts. She's also an adjunct research

scientists at Columbia University's Earth Institute and a fierce advocate for feminine leadership on climate.

I still remember in the first two weeks of shelter in place putting an out of office response on my email saying I am now.

In addition to my day job, I've been promoted to an elementary school teacher, a chef, a housekeeper, a yard duty, a therapist.

Alicia Seiger is managing director of the Sustainable Finance Initiative at Stanford University and a lecturer at Stanford Law School. Her struggle to juggle professional and personal

responsibilities during COVID highlights the need for a recovery that specifically supports

women and members of black, indigenous, and communities of

color. I am a citizen of the Sequip Muck Nation from what is now British Columbia, Canada. I'm also a

descendant to the Lee Wat Nation of Mount Curry, also in Canada. Julian Brave Noiscat is vice

president of policy and strategy at the think tank data for progress and writes for many organizations, including Canada's National Observer.

His experience learning his grandmother's native language, spoken by about only 200 people,

has strongly informed his work on loss in the face of climate disruption.

At its core, climate changes, in part, the loss of a climate and atmosphere and world

that supported civilization and human society as we know it.

And in that sense, does pose an existential threat to the world that we inherited from our ancestors and parents and

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