WEBVTT - 082623 Dr. Tekola discusses Climate Change and Sustainability (Part 2) 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:03.280 If you just tuning in to Civic Cipher, I am 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.960 your host, Ramsay's job. Big shout out to my manq Ward, 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.320 who is out and about. He is a man on 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.080 a mission and he is out changing the world. But 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.000 he will be back soon and we are going to 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.400 get back to rockin' in the free world for you today. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.800 I'm jorin by the one and only doctor Doctor Tacolo, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.960 a sustainability scientist who has chosen to sit in with 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:30.200 us to warn us to take decisive action to promote 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.320 sustainability and to combat climate change. And so she and 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.519 I are going to be having some more conversations, particularly 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:46.080 with respect to kind of what's at stake and really 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:47.960 what we can do about that. So if this is 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.360 something that interests you, please stick around. If this is 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.320 something that doesn't interest you, please get out of the way, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.520 because it seems like we've got a whole lot of 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.160 work to do. But first and foremost, we are going 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.080 to discuss be A be A becoming a better Ally Baba. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.800 Today's Babba sponsored by Unknown Union, the fashion how situated 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.240 at the intersection of meaning, innovation and culture. More info 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.280 check Unknown Union dot com. 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The fact of the matter is 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.440 that there's a lot of things that we're going to 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.400 need to do to make a lot of changes. As 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.160 we mentioned earlier in the show, a lot of times 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.440 black and brown communities bear the brunt of the worst 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.840 of climate change and environmental disasters, et cetera. And this 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.040 is a small thing that you can do to help out. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.200 Once again, a matter of Trust dot org. Moving on, now, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:08.200 let's talk about sustainability, doctor Tacola. Now, when we were 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.000 talking before the show, you know, you said you sent 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.480 me a text and you says, hey, we. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.600 Need to really get the word out about all these. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.400 Things that are going on in the country, these uh, 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:24.840 these storms and fires and so forth. And you also 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.919 texted me something that stood out. You said, it's gotten 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.359 really bad and there's a lot at steak. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.600 So let's talk about what said Steak. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.360 Uh, I'd say, what's that steak is our future and 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.080 it's the ability to live on this planet. And so 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.560 what we're seeing is how it gets What will change 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.520 is like agriculture zone. So for example, the United States, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.240 we have the bread basket. If the bread basket moves 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.440 up to Canada because of the heat and the temperature, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:04:00.760 that increased temperature, then then we know, no longer have 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.880 We're no longer a wheat exporter, We're no longer creates 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:11.040 huge national security, huge economic implications. But more importantly, I 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.480 would say, you know, like the risings of the tides, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.960 which you know, the ocean will continue to rise as 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:21.279 the glaciers continue to melt, which means that the coasts 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.200 will not be safe. Florida's underwater parts of California or 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.880 underwater and New York. And when we're looking at this, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.000 these are the most populated places in the world is 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.480 the coast. And so if the coast go underwater, we're 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.000 talking about mass evacuation mass and you know who gets 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.200 left behind, poor people, and that oftentimes means our communities, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.920 and so not not to mention you know, like how 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.760 are we going to grow food? Where are we going 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:57.360 to get water? Here in Arizona, Arizona, Nevada, and southwest California. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:04.240 So we all get water. Specifically Vegas, Phoenix and La 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.640 get a huge component. And Phoenix is forty percent of 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.320 our water from Lake Mead, which is the water from 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.880 the Colorada River behind Hoover Dam. Lake Mead is we're 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.640 about to run out. I was just there a few 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.160 weeks ago, and I saw the impact. And ye know, 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.560 I was just there ten years ago, and to look 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.400 at the difference in ten years, you shouldn't be able 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:26.520 to see that. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.320 For folks that haven't been up there, because I was 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:35.240 just up there recently myself, and you can see the 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.040 water line. You can see how much water is gone. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.320 And as someone who's lived here and gone to Vegas 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.000 since I was let's call it the past twenty years, 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.480 I'm used to seeing that water line at or approximately 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.360 at the normal level, and now it's so far gone 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.120 it's really scary. So for folks who don't make it 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.760 to the side of the country, you know, it's important 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.840 for you to know that this is not an exaggeration. Yeah, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:05:59.480 not making this up. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.880 Phoenix, La, Las Vegas. Can you imagine if these cities 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.520 ran out of water and we're talking about. This is 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.520 our reality in the next five to ten years if 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.840 we do nothing, and in fact, it's actually going to 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.839 be sooner. If by twenty twenty five we don't do something, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.080 that means will lock in and basically by twenty thirty 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.960 there will be past the point of return. And that's 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.520 the thing about climate change, and that's actually when you 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.560 look at human psychology, we tend to procrastinate about things 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.240 that aren't directly in front of our face. So you know, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.320 if it's a slow boiling like they say in a 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.760 frog with frogs, right, you put a frog in a 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.400 boiling pot, they're gonna jump out, but you turn up 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.880 the heat slowly and you can willingly cook them. And 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.520 that's literally what's happening to us in this world. So 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.560 one of the things is that the IPCC, which is 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.560 the International Panel on Climate Change. These are the best 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:58.040 scientists from around the world that put out reports every year, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.000 and they have in twenty nineteen they said that twenty 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.360 thirty is our tipping point and if we do not 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.400 peak carbon emissions by twenty thirty, that will be the 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.480 point of no return. So we only have seven years 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:17.800 left really to evert the most uh evert this crisis 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.160 as we know it, and if we don't by twenty thirty, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.360 then we really have to start looking at how do 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.360 we survive the apocalypse. But we're already starting to feel that, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.480 like I said, like the Southwest water future is is 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.040 not guaranteed. And what we're seeing is that instead of 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.280 you know, you would think like meat drying up would 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.800 be enough, if you know, the Southwest running out of 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.520 water would be enough for behavioral change, and what we're 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.520 seeing is not that. For example, we're in Tier two 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.800 shortage of water, which is the federal government is telling 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.960 the Southwest they have to come up with plans to 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:58.600 reduce their water and recently when they had until like 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.520 this spring to come up with plans, and Nevada and 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.160 Arizona we're teamed up and we're like, we have a plan, 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.600 tell California to cut all the water. California was like wait, wait, wait, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.440 hold up, you know, like that's not fair. So we're 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:15.120 not actually being solution oriented, We're not being conducive. You know. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.400 We have people like Christian Cinema of that be like 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.640 I don't like that California gets more water than Arizona 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.480 and it's like this isn't that's beside the point. Okay, well, 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.520 let's not debate who gets more. Let's actually talk about 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.520 how do we change our behavior so that we avert 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.000 this crisis of the Southwest, you know, having to evacuate 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:34.160 right now. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.520 There's something that there's two things that you said. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.040 And I know we're kind of focused a little bit 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.680 on the south West right now, but I think that 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:45.840 that kind of shows that mentality that you described, that 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.360 people are not really taking it seriously. So if you 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.480 don't live in the Southwest, bear with us for a minute. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.320 You mentioned the bread basket and how there are fiscal 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:01.120 implications and potential food and securities if you know, we 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.640 don't combat this issue right now right so now we're 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.760 talking about people's money, and money typically makes people that 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.920 makes their ears proc up right, or if we're talking 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.080 about food security, you know, those are things that people 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.840 might worry about because it doesn't matter how much money 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.760 you have. If you can't eat you can't eat them dollars, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.400 trust me. Yeah, So I want us to hold that 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.040 in one part of our minds. The other part of 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.200 our minds, I want us to imagine you don't really 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.600 have to imagine because it's a real thing. But in 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.520 the same state you mentioned Kirsten Cinema, in the state 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.800 of Arizona, where there is a water shortage and a 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.000 water crisis, let's be honest, let's call it what it is, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:51.040 they're actively building a water park. You're read about this, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:56.559 So you can see how the intersection of corporate interests 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:05.440 and sustainability that the alarming kind of intersection typically falls 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:10.000 on deaf ears when it comes to politics, because politicians 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.960 require money to remain in office, and then the money 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.920 comes with favors and strings attached and so forth, and 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.439 then we the people end up paying the price for it. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.000 And again we've talked a bit about poor people, you know, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.640 bearing the brunt of this, but the fact of the 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.760 matter is that there's a lot of people that live 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.640 in the Southwest, in Vegas, in southern California, and in Arizona. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.600 And for a second, let me just mention this for 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.959 people that think that just because California is on the ocean, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.360 that they're going to be fine, it doesn't work that way. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.680 We need fresh water, that we're we're not salt water creatures. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.840 But anyway, I just wanted to make sure that I 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:48.320 interjected that, because people really need to understand the mentality 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.560 of our elected officials so that we know how to 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.360 hold them responsible for our lives, in the future, of 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.800 our planet, in the future for our babies. It's funny, 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.320 before the show, you were, you know, you saw my son, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:01.920 you know, in the studio, and you know that I 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.719 definitely want a world for him to grow up in 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.160 and have his own children, and so I'd imagine that 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.440 most people feel the same way. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.400 So yeah, definitely, And I think when you talk about 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.680 the politician's mentality, it's just ego and greed, and it's 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.160 ego to the point of, you know, h it can 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.439 really cause us to for us all to die because 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.480 these people thought they were they could put a water park, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.160 add a Tier two shortage. It's just at this point 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.840 it's like, how can you be so arrogant? But as 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.120 you could see, it's also and this is part of 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.960 my research and why I connected decolonization and climate change, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.520 because it's this type of colonial thinking of this man 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.080 over nature, of this domination over nature, just like dominating 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.960 over people of color, and it's this belief that oh, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.240 we can just solve it, And so what we hear 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.560 from a lot of the Republican legislature, from a lot 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.080 of people is like, oh, we got the ocean, we 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.680 can just desalinize. Well, the problem with desalinization is it's 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.679 credibly expensive. Right now, we're paying sense per gallon. When 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.880 you look at desalinization, we're going to be spending dollars 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.520 per gallon. And some people, the rich might be able 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.840 to afford that, but what happens to people who can 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.520 no longer afford water? Because that was the plan desalinization, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.839 not to mention that a lot of these plants break. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.280 Not to mention in states like Arizona, we don't have 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.360 a coast, and they're talking about we're just gonna make 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.240 a deal with Mexico, Like we don't have the greatest 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.560 relationship with Mexico. Have you actually talked to them. You 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.800 can't bank our future on these, you know, political negotiations 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.320 that haven't even been started. So it is scary. But 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.080 I also want to talk about the other side. You know, 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.280 one of the things that I've heard criticism of climate 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.199 activism is that, you know, they say Martin Luther King 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.880 had a dream, but climate activists only described the nightmare, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.600 the nightmare of the future, right, and so we also 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.920 have to look at the bright side, the possibility of opportunity. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.280 Not only Klein has a book called this Changes Everything, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:05.240 and really climate change does change everything. But instead of 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.120 looking at it like, oh, what are we going to do? 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.920 This is so terrible, we can look at an opportunity. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:15.559 This is an opportunity. Address existing inequities, address redlining, address 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.719 all of these issues our communities already had if we 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.840 really look at the opportunity. And so there's two important 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.520 bills that actually passed, the Inflation Reduction Act and the 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.160 Jobs and Infrastructure Bill. Both of these unlocked billions of 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.560 dollars that go into one green jobs, which on average, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.960 green jobs pay more than oil jobs. They're healthier, they 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.280 don't have as much toxic exposure, and then they also 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.960 oftentimes are union jobs that don't require a college degree. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.840 And so these are this can actually have a material 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.559 benefit to our communities. And when you look at oil 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.959 versus renewable energy, since we have to build the infrastructure 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.760 renewable energy that make three to four jobs per every 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 one job in the oil industry. So when we talk 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.680 about the jobs versus environment, false dichotomy. Well, if we 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.880 want to play that game, renewable energy creates more jobs. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:14.360 And so with these two bills, they really unlock all 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.640 sorts of possibilities. Now, in particular, another important thing is 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.400 Biden had passed what's called Justice forty. It's an executive 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.800 order which says that forty percent of these environmental and 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.600 similar social bills have to forty percent of that funding 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.160 has to go to communities of color. And so when 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.880 we look at the Inflation Reduction Act, that's three hundred 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.080 and seventy billion dollars, This is bigger than the New Deal, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.760 and forty percent of that has to go to our communities. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.720 So when we look at the decades of disinvestment, the 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.200 Inflation Reduction Act, if we seize the opportunity, if we 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.880 hold government accountable, if we get our cities to apply 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.720 for this funding, if we get our communities to apply 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.320 for this funding, we could really transform our cities, you know, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:05.800 and it will be an opportunity to change these historical inequities. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.880 And so I also think that we should talk about 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.600 the possibilities if we address if we have what they 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.320 call it just transition, where we make sure no one's 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.480 left behind, it can actually put communities of color on 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.920 a better outlook in the future. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.360 Okay, Okay, Now I want to circle back to that 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.400 in just a second, because I feel like you can 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.240 give us some pretty profound advice in terms of what 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:34.200 we individually can do. You have studied, you've seen it all, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.520 you know it all most folks are. They wake up, 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.680 they go to work, they get their kids from school, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.960 they go home, and like you said, it's such a 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:46.440 far away problem for most people. But because you've seen it, 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.880 and because you know what can be done and what 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.800 happens if we don't, I'd love to get your advice 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.600 for the every man and every woman or every person. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.560 I should say that, like what they what we can 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.560 do in our in our immediate lives, but beyond recycling 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.600 and you know whatever. So first, before we get there, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.440 I do want to share something that I got from Vox. Okay, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.720 so box dot com record heat normal, it's hot, hot hot, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.520 all right. That's from Laura Ingram on our Fox News show. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.400 After all, we're in the middle of a season called summer. Now. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.840 The thing is, she was being facetious, you know, just 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.520 she was like, oh, everybody's complained about it's hot at summer, right, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.520 she's not understanding or she's trying to make light of 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.000 the fact that it is a record breaking July, the 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.080 hottest July on record. Anyway, The fact checks suggest that 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.160 more than three thousand temperature records were shattered in the 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.920 US for the month of July alone, something scientists say 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.760 would be virtually impossible without human caused climate. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.840 Okay, let's go to forest fires. Nature naturally burns itself 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.480 off every eleven years with natural disaster forest fires. This 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.480 comes from Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who's a Republican from Oklahoma. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.640 This is a forest fire, all right, Now, let's fact 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.399 check him. It says the severity of wildfires, such as 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.360 the historic blazes in Canada this year, are fueled by 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:17.320 complex conditions including forest management and drought primed by climate change. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.359 Okay, all right, so let's go to these stronger hurricanes. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.280 All right, just a part of life. This is something 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.119 that is a fact of life in the Sunshine State. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.359 This comes from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He said this 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.320 in a Fox News interview. He goes on to say, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.560 I've always rejected the politicization. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.600 Is I said that right politicization. That's what it says 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:43.359 of the weather. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.240 But the fact check suggests that climate change drives the 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.040 warming of ocean waters, which provide fuel for more devastating 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.560 hurricanes and typhoons. All right, so let me go on 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.840 to the next one. Here, more Americans are impacted by 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.320 climate change. Sixty two percent of all voters recognized climate 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.240 change is caused by human activity, according to a Gallop 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.000 pole from this spring. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.760 Yet, climate change. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.919 Denial is not only alive and well in the GOP, 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.680 it's become a lot more insidious and polarizing, said John Cook, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.879 a University of Melbourne researcher who has tracked the path 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:22.119 of climate disinformation online using artificial intelligence. The GOP's only 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:27.320 climate policy is actually bad for the environment. When Representative 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:31.000 Bruce Westerman, who was a Republican from Arkansas, first proposed 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.199 the Trillion Trees Act in twenty twenty, environmentalists said the 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:40.639 bill would significantly increase logging across America's federal forests, convert 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:46.159 millions of acres into industrial treat plantations, increase global carbon emissions, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:51.359 increased wildfire risk, and harm wildlife and watersheds. The idea 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.239 was a wolf in sheep's clothing effectively giving loggers more 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.520 allowances as long as they planted seedlings, which are decades 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.440 away from delivering climate burning. But the GOP has come 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.200 to champion this idea as their climate plan. So it's 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:12.720 important to know that there are people who may even 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:17.680 pretend to care about this issue, and they may put 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.800 something together that sounds good. Trillion trees, if that's what 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:23.760 you name it. It sounds great, A trillion more trees. Hey, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.920 we're good, right, But when you peel back a couple 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.959 of layers, you know, as I mentioned, it's really just 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:34.920 expanding logging. And they do want to plant more trees, 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.880 but it's just not realistic because the benefit of those trees. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.040 We're going to sink a lot further before we get 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.080 the benefits of those and right now we need to 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.000 be climbing out of the ditch. We sink any further 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:45.639 that we may hit that point of no return that 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.720 you mentioned. So we got a couple of minutes left. 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:52.720 I do want to ask you, what again, what is 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.520 it that sort of the every person can do with 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:58.560 the information that we've discussed on today's show. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.240 So I'm not going to talk about individual actions because Frankly, 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.200 I think we're beyond that. For me, the individual actions 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.800 I take is more of part of my personal ethic 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.320 and helps me be conscious of the environment that I'm in. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.080 But really, when we look at we need, we need 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.960 political action, and so when we think about voting, when 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.040 we think about talking to our legislature, we need to 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.720 make climate the number one issue. We need to make 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.000 sure that our politicians realize that if they're going to 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.399 be an ostrich with their head in the sand, if 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.080 they're going to be the emperor has no clothes and 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.720 talk about like, oh, climate change doesn't exist. Meanwhile, communities 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.200 in Alaska are already having to be relocated because they're melting, 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.360 you know, So you can't really deny that, and if 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.960 you do again, like you have to, you can't be 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.439 seen as a political politically feasible. And so we have 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.359 to make that reality right. We need to strengthen our 0:20:55.400 --> 0:21:00.199 democracy by ensuring that communities, that politicians know that this 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.399 is one of our core issues. And then you know, 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.560 there's other things that you can do in terms of 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:14.200 like ensuring you know, like ensuring that we hold corporations accountable, 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.560 and there's a lot of different ways that we can 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.439 do that. There's a lot of different organizations, whether like 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:25.320 the Sunrise Movement or other groups like Extinction Rebellion. We 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.920 really need to hold these corporations accountable. And actually, on 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.520 September seventeenth, which is during Climate Week in New York, 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.679 there's gonna be a huge mass protest. I'll be there. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.280 If you're in New York. You should. You should be 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:42.480 there if you're in the area. And we're really trying 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:46.760 to again hold our politicians responsible. Let corporations know no more. 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.040 But it's really important for us to be aware. So 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.520 increase our awareness and then also make sure that we're 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.399 holding our governing and corporations accountable. 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:03.399 Well, that is sound advice. I appreciate you coming to 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.879 share that with us. Obviously, this is this is the 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.480 most important issue. It doesn't matter who's black and who's 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.280 white and whatever, if there's no planet and we can't 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:16.199 survive on it, so you know, vote accordingly. I like 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:20.760 that advice. If you feel so inclined, please you know, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.280 share any ways that people can connect with you, virtually 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:26.760 social media anything like that, or even sort of websites 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:28.200 that people and go do to get some more information. 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:33.600 Yeah, for sure. So a few different ways. If you 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.600 are if you are to connect with me personally, my 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:41.640 instagram is doctor Sara Tacola. If you're interested in I 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:46.119 am an environmental justice consultant. My company is at DSLM Consulting, 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:52.479 so I help organizations improve their environmental justice analysis. And 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.160 then finally, I think, just like I said, make sure 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.920 that you pay attention and get involved in what's happening 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:00.000