Planet Earth's Deadline

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Culture, Society, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We have 12 years left to reverse the effect of climate change, according to the latest report from the United Nations. Maria and Julio talk with Justine Calma from Grist and award-winning writer Meera Subramanian about this new data and the consequences of climate change for communities of color. ITT Staff Picks

Which countries are doing well (and which are failing) to control their emissions? From The Washington Post.
Justine Calma explains the dire situation of communities of color facing climate change (Grist).
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0:00.0	This episode of In The Fick is brought to you by Away.
0:04.0	Climate change is totally an equity issue, a justice issue, and we should be treating it that way. What what what?
0:15.0	Welcome to In The Thick.
0:17.0	This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective.
0:20.0	I'm Marianne Hosa and my co-anchor is...
0:22.8	Julio Ricalo-Barela, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what,
0:27.0	what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what,
0:27.4	and I'm like, you know, she, just mixing it up.
0:29.2	I know, you always do.
0:30.2	Mixing it up like we do.
0:31.9	And joining us from her home office in Queens, New York is returning
0:35.7	guest Justine Kama. She's a writer at Grist and with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.
0:40.5	Welcome back, Justine.
0:41.7	Hi, thanks.
0:43.7	And making her in the thick debut is Mira Subramanian.
0:48.4	She is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports on science in the environment.
0:52.1	Hey Mira, welcome to the show.
0:54.0	Hey there, thank you so much for having me on.
0:56.0	Yeah, well we're having you on because you report on the climate.
0:59.0	That I do.
1:00.0	That has been my in the thick of late.
1:02.0	Ha ha, nice.
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