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Climate One

REWIND: A Feminist Climate Renaissance

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of national reckoning on racial and economic disparities, there is growing support for a more holistic approach. This view holds that the climate crisis won’t be resolved until we first address the systemic imbalances that have fueled it – racism, capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy. In their recent book, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, co-editors Katharine Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson bring together the voices of women artists, writers and change-makers who are at the forefront of climate action. “The work that we’re doing is instigating or nurturing a feminist climate renaissance,” says Johnson, “which is what we feel the climate movement so desperately needs right now.” Guests: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist Katharine Wilkinson, Vice President, Project Drawdown Co-editors, All We Can Save:Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (One World, 2020) Christine Nieves Rodriguez, Co-founder and President, Emerge Puerto Rico. Sherri Mitchell, author, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (North Atlantic Books, 2018) Heather McTeer Toney, National Field Director, Moms Clean Air Force Jainey Bavishi, Director, Mayor's Office of Resiliency, New York City Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. A feminist approach to the climate conversation begins over

0:36.8

150 years ago.

0:38.7

That's when a scientist named Eunice Newton-Foot first recognized the heating effect of CO2.

0:43.7

And she made this discovery by using, you know, glass bells and tubes with gas in 1856.

0:51.3

She was the first person to connect the dots between carbon dioxide and planetary warming.

0:57.7

Since then, Foote's predictions about climate change had become all too real.

1:01.8

But as we've tried to engineer our way to a solution, the systemic underpinnings of the problem, racism, capitalism, and patriarchy, have been harder to address. Women leaders in the climate movement are out to change that.

1:13.6

The work that we're doing is instigating or nurturing a feminist climate renaissance,

1:19.6

which is what we feel climate movement so desperately needs right now.

1:23.6

Can a feminine renaissance heal the climate?

1:26.6

Climate ones empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency.

1:31.3

The work of reducing carbon emissions sometimes gets reduced to just electrifying transportation

1:37.3

and replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power.

1:40.3

But there are many who advocate for a more holistic approach, who say that the

1:45.1

climate crisis won't be resolved until we first address the systemic imbalances that have fueled

1:50.2

it. When you start to dig deeper, you start to see that the roots of the challenge are actually

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