Trump vs. Life on Earth
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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ITT co-hosts Maria Hinojosa and Dr. Christina Greer are joined by the renowned environmental justice lawyer and executive director of UPROSE, Elizabeth Yeampierre. They dig into the future of the environmental justice movement, Trump’s cabinet picks and the global implications of a deregulated fossil fuel industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what up, ITT, listener. |
| 0:12.7 | Here we are back in the thick. |
| 0:14.7 | It's Maria Inojosa, and I'm joined this week by my co-host political scientist, Birdwatcherer friend, Professor Christina Greer in Brooklyn. |
| 0:23.1 | What's up, Chrissy? |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, it's always great when I'm with you. |
| 0:26.7 | That's what's up. |
| 0:27.6 | So, dear listener, today we're going to be talking about these Trump cabinet picks. |
| 0:32.5 | I know. |
| 0:33.0 | I know. |
| 0:33.4 | Lots of feelings. |
| 0:34.5 | We're going to talk about what they mean specifically for the future of our shared |
| 0:37.9 | planet and for the environmental justice movement. So joining us, the renowned environmental |
| 0:44.4 | justice lawyer and organizer, badass Boricua from Brooklyn, holding it down. Elizabeth Jean-Pierre, |
| 0:51.3 | welcome to In The Thing. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:55.4 | We're in it. |
| 1:03.9 | So the first thing we're going to do, Elizabeth, you know we do this on the show. |
| 1:08.3 | We like to do an emotional check-in, and we call it the temperature check. |
| 1:10.4 | So what is your temperature check today? |
| 1:12.7 | I think that's a great question. |
| 1:15.2 | I think that we are ready. |
| 1:21.8 | We have had all the conversations about where things are, what the threats are for our communities. |
| 1:30.4 | And while we are humble and understanding that it is a scary time to be living, I think that we're doing all the things that are necessary to protect the sacred. So I feel blessed by the ancestors and are ready |
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