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Power Shift: Jamie Margolin and Dorceta Taylor

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and generational identities. As we think about a transfer of U.S. presidential power, what can we learn about how other types of power are shaping our climate and our future? “It is precisely for people when they vote to not just think of the vote as voting for health or voting for schools or libraries, but to start connecting the dots,” says Dorceta Taylor, an original leader of the environmental justice movement. “That's another dimension of power.” Guests: Dorceta Taylor, Professor, Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School for the Environment Jamie Margolin, Co-Executive Director, Zero Hour; Author, Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It This program was recorded via video on October 26, 2020 and September 15, 2020. Visit our website for full show notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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exclusions apply. How does power shape our climate and our future? Climate One conversations feature

0:36.4

all dimensions of the climate emergency,

0:38.8

the personal and the systemic, the exciting and the scary. I'm Greg Dalton.

0:44.2

The power that we do have is to shift the needle towards change by shifting the culture

0:49.6

because culture shifts cause shifts in law. Jamie Margolin is co-founder and co-executive director of the Youth Climate Justice Organization Zero Hour.

0:58.0

At age 18, she's also the author of Youth to Power, Your Voice and How to Use It.

1:04.0

She'll join us later to explain how she's helped build a youth climate movement,

1:08.0

from first-time activists to families on the front lines of pollution,

1:11.7

a subject that came up in the most recent presidential debate.

1:15.1

The families that we're talking about are employed heavily, and they are making a lot of money,

1:20.0

more money than they've ever made.

1:21.7

When you look at those jobs, they're short-term, they're low-wage. They are not jobs that help people in the long haul.

1:30.3

That's Dr. Dorsita Taylor, Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School for the Environment,

1:35.3

and an original leader of the Environmental Justice Movement.

1:39.3

I began our conversation by asking Dr. Taylor for her reaction to a definition of power cited by Dr. Martin Luther King in March of 1968.

1:48.3

Speaking in Memphis to striking sanitation workers, he said, quote,

1:52.1

We can all get more together than we can apart. We can get more organized together than we can apart.

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