1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: While there is a joy and affortitude that's unspeakable from 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: growing up in inner cities as a black person and 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: indigenous or a person of color, there is a reality 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: that you're kind of living most of the time in 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: the red zone, which is kind of true for any 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: sort of low income communities where you have to triage 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: what's information and issues are worth your energy. You're still 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: trying to figure out food, You're trying to figure out safety, 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: and when you're black, you're trying to figure out the 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: boys in blue. You know. So if you notice our elders, 11 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: unless they are highly educated or have a few financial margins, 12 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: they don't worry about stuff like therapy because we just 13 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: don't want to have time for that, especially when it 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: talks about politics, like you know, a lot of times, man, 15 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: you ain't got time for that. You like, what's going 16 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: on right here, things like foreign policy, Man, I ain't 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: got time to worry about that is what's going on 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: right here. We're dining in the streets. It's it's Maslow's 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: hierarchy of needs. When I taught high school, it was 20 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: one thing I used to teach them kids, and I 21 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: actually designed my classroom around that. Quick primary. Naslow's hierarchy 22 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: needs is just this like pyramid of things you gotta 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: take care of. So your first part is like your 24 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 1: basic needs food, water, warmth, shelter, rest, and then the 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: next step above that. Once that's said, you can start 26 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: talking about safety and security, and when you're in the 27 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: hood that stuff kind of blends, right. Then you can 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 1: deal with like emotional and psychological things like relationships and 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: friends and you know, interpersonal skills, and then you can 30 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: start talking about esteem and prestige and feeling accomplished. Of course, 31 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: it's not that linear in real life, in anybody's life. 32 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: The point I'm trying to make is what I want 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: to know about World War two? If I don't know 34 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: where the food at, we're talking about algebra, what I'm 35 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: why would I go to school if my school cross 36 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: town where I gotta cross arrival and stay. Especially Tom, 37 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: let's go to this after school y m C A 38 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: program like wooll you know who live over there? I'm 39 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: not good over there, ain't going over there. And then 40 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: finally the top of Maslow's thing is self actualization and 41 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,519 Speaker 1: and then we could start really getting meta about stuff. 42 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: But you can't get meta. You don't know where the 43 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: food coming from. If I feel like I ain't gonna 44 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: make at home safe, you think inter city kids ain't 45 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: interested in what you're talking about. They got other stuff 46 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: worried about. So I used to spend most of the 47 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: first month or two of my class creating safety. You know, 48 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 1: packing extra food, fire me, you know whatever, I got 49 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 1: snacks in my my drawer. You know what I'm saying, 50 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: Like it's an extra water bottle. Like because they basic 51 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: needs met for I could start talking about heavier stuff. 52 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: You worry about algebra and he's trying to eat. Also, 53 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: when it comes to things like climate change, foods don't care. 54 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: It just seems so far off. Today, I want to 55 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: make a case for what the hood should care because 56 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: it is about your basic need needs. Let's talk about 57 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: climate change for the politics, right name y'all. So today 58 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: I want to kind of introduce a different type of show. 59 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,960 Speaker 1: This is a little different. This show is not necessarily 60 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: talking from the hood, but talking to the hood. There's 61 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: things that like people where I come from, they just 62 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: don't they just don't talk about. They don't really care 63 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: about because it don't feel like it's an issue I 64 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: need to worry about. The old zone layer, like you, 65 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You know those are things 66 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: that you know from the city. Is that's when they 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: look at me like this little nega weird. That's you 68 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: just don't care about things like that because you got 69 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: other stuff you're worried about. And I totally understand it. 70 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: I'm going back to the therapy thing. I know my 71 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: my parents they talked about there. We did that at church. 72 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: You went to counseling with the past. A lot of 73 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: our needs, you know, especially in the black community, was 74 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: met by the church, which is why Western evangelical stuff 75 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: just especially when you're not from like white church. That's 76 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: that's just don't make sense to us. Spending You're sending 77 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: people all the way to Peru and Venezuela while you 78 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: live literally across the street from one of the poorest 79 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: neighborhoods in your city. You know what I'm saying, You 80 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: ain't done nothing for them, so you just like, y'all 81 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: needs are met, so you could look somewhere else. But 82 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: when your needs ain't met, it's just I just don't 83 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: have time for those things today. I want to make 84 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: a case now that I got some margins that to 85 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: continue the metaphor, man, you should go to therapy. We 86 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: could use it. It's actually money well spent. And then 87 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: when you start doing professional therapy again, you got the 88 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: money to spare to do it right too, not need 89 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: to find like a black therapist because you're looking across 90 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: the table like there's no way in the world. Just dude, 91 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: understand what I'm going through. Institutional, psychological, generational tryming like 92 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: you don't get that. There's so much more going on here. 93 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: That is hard talking to a perse saying who just 94 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: ain't experience with your experience, It just don't seem it 95 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: don't seem real. What I'm trying to say is I 96 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: feel you because I'm from that. So now this is 97 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: me after being able to learn a lot of things, 98 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: travel across the world and rather than just be a 99 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: representative of people that came from where I'm crying from 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: that have gotten to go do other things. Now I'm 101 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: turning back and I'm saying, hey, yo, squad family, this 102 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: mug affects us, and it affects us in ways that 103 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: we haven't noticed. We need to talk about this now now. 104 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: I hope you don't hear this Like I'm not saying 105 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: here become another thing we need to care about. Like 106 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: now I'm exhausted. That's not what I'm saying, or I'm 107 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: not saying we need to care about this instead of 108 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: the other stuff we're caring about. What I'm trying to 109 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: say is all of this stuff is connected, and it 110 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: all feeds the same infrastructure that for some reason it's 111 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: hell bent on destroying us. So follow me. I'm not 112 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: trying to take away from nothing else. I'm trying to say, hey, 113 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: but also this mug is connected. So listen, y'all. Everybody, 114 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: welcome to the conversation, but I want you to know 115 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: I'm specifically talking to our inner cities and specifically working 116 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: class persons of color. But of course listening because everybody's welcome, 117 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: all right, And I'm a specifically focused on California. Now California, 118 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: actually the whole western part of the country is in 119 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 1: one of the biggest droughts it's ever been in since 120 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: the last twelve hundred years. Like we get our water 121 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: from Colorado River into this reservoir called Lake Mead. Now 122 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: Lake Mead is at its lowest amount of water they say, 123 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: when it gets under or one thousand seventy feet it 124 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: in imediately triggers a water shortage. And what's hard about 125 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: this is it just seems so far away. The way 126 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: we understand it is very simple. The water turn off 127 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 1: if I don't pay the bill, that's why. That's how 128 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: you get water, but paying the bill. And also this 129 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: is crazy. It come out the sky. I don't understand 130 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: why anybody gotta how is this so hard? But if 131 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: you're from Cali, you know it don't rain a lot. 132 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: We have these series of droughts to happen all the time. 133 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: You remember the little commercials about that drought is real, 134 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: and you just don't you you don't really feel it. 135 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: You know, it's hot, real hot. And then I used 136 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: to say, I always say that California got like we 137 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: do have seasons. We have summer, we have fire, we 138 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: got two weeks of rain, and we got mud slide seasons, 139 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: and then summer again, that's that's our season. But if 140 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: you haven't noticed that fire season has gotten increasingly longer 141 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: and that rain season has gotten increasingly shorter. But again, 142 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: it still feels so are away. What I want to 143 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: do is I want to take it back home and 144 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: process some things. But let's back up for a second 145 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: lake mead water droute. What that got to do with 146 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: your water bill? Well, let me light you up with 147 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: real quick with this Who owned the water? Have you 148 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: ever asked that question? You ever thought about that? And 149 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: it seems stupid because it fall out the sky, you like, 150 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: nigga god on the water? What is you talking about? 151 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: But when you look at that water bottle, that's say, 152 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: no Crystal geyser Mountain spring water you know bottled at 153 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: the mountain somebody you think they just ran up to 154 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: a random place and built a factory and just put 155 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: them plastic bottles. And you can't just do that. You 156 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: gotta buy at somebody bought the water. I'm let this 157 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,479 Speaker 1: sink in. Somebody owned the water. Now across the country 158 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: there is a combination of private and public consortions of 159 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: where your water comes from. And you could do your 160 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: googles to figure out if your water come from a 161 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: private company or not. And I know that sounds weird 162 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: because you like it comes from the city, just like 163 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: your electric bill, just like your power but it comes 164 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: from the city. You you're looking at the power plant, 165 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: you know, up the street around the corner. You know 166 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, if you're down there, and if you're 167 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: down here in l A down in Long Beach, right 168 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: at the end of the twenty two, in the four 169 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: or five, it's a big old water thing right at 170 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: the end of that. You like, it's next to the ocean. 171 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: What do you mean it's seventy of the earth water. 172 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: What you're talking about, Well, you know we can't drink 173 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: most of that. We're talking about fresh water. Somebody own 174 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: that water. And if you own water, will, where does 175 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: water come from? Either the groundwater? You know, I'm taking 176 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: you back to seventh grade. All the water that's ever 177 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: been here is still here. That's the water cycle. It evaporates, 178 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: makes a cloud, and then it rains. But if I 179 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: own the body of water, don't that mean I own 180 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: the rain let that sink in? Somebody own the rain right, 181 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 1: and of course that's over a particular part of the 182 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 1: ground that they bought, but you can own it. Now. 183 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: In California, there's certain things called water rights. Will we'll 184 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: get into a little later. And then with runoff, right, 185 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: So if there's a part of a natural spring that 186 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: kind of sprouts off into a different part that you 187 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: don't own. According to California law. Okay, you ain't got 188 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: no rights over that. That's like public domain. Man. You 189 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: can't just you can't just take the stream now. You can't. 190 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: You're not allowed to bend the stream. Now. If you've 191 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: been the stream, you gotta go get permits for that. 192 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: But I need you to listen to me. Somebody can 193 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: bend the stream. But I want to go back to 194 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: your utilities. You think they're coming from the city. You 195 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: think that's public. That's not necessarily true. Now I'm a 196 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: quote from the I'm gonna give y'all ganga links today 197 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: because uh, I need you to go do your homework 198 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: and it's too big for me to like really process 199 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: at all. But u n C has this thing called 200 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 1: the Environmental Finance Blog that I would love for y'all 201 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: to understand, like how the money is going, So think 202 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: of it like this. I'm a quote from there. Check 203 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: this out. The dynamic between public and private systems have 204 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: always been interesting, especially in the case of water and 205 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: wastewater systems. Public water systems are usually nonprofit entities managed 206 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: by a local or state government, for which rates are 207 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: set by a governing board. But on the other hand, 208 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: private water systems can be a for profit system managed 209 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: by investors and shareholders. Though rates are monitored by state's 210 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: public commission, private systems are not necessarily subject to a 211 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: regulating board. Additionally, the difference between public and private are 212 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: not always to stink. Now translation, you may not know 213 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: because it's not clear who actually owns your water. You 214 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: can't make no assumptions about this stuff. These are things 215 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: you got to find out because the blend between public 216 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: and private is very blurry. Now, let me give you 217 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: some street stuff. If the water is the brick of cocaine, 218 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 1: so the water is the way, right, what a plug 219 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: plug Columbia, the club, the plug private, but private connect 220 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: with the streets to cut that crack up and distribute 221 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: it to y'all. So you're yelling at the crack dealer. 222 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: Crack dealer, don't set the prices. The plug do, and 223 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,839 Speaker 1: there's nobody over the plug to make sure that then 224 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: prices is fair. Because what you're gonna do not have water. 225 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: Walk with me, Walk with me, y'all. So even the 226 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: prices of your water, you may or may not know, 227 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: you might be funding somebody private. And how does that 228 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: work with the city where the city buys the water 229 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: in bulk So Corporation a run up to Lake So 230 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: and so by the whole lake and all the rain 231 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: that comes thereof And then they say, I sell it 232 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: to you in a brick form. I say you the 233 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: whole thing. You'all can distribute however we want, but we 234 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: need our money and that's what we're charging. And then 235 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: they say, hey, and check this out. I got a 236 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: homeboy over here that can treat the water for you 237 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: to make sure that it's drinkable. But you gotta pay 238 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: them too, though. That's part of the deal. So you 239 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: gotta work with both of us. Now you gotta think 240 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: about where your water coming from. Is this public or 241 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: private or some consortion of both, And it's really hard 242 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: to find out. California we got combos. Now you can 243 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: look up your own district to kind of figure it out, 244 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: but basically California is ran by what's called get this 245 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: the water board. I know I'm burnt out. There is 246 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: this thing called seeding clouds, which you can look China 247 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: been doing it for a while. So essentially, if you 248 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: own a plot of land, right and you say to yourself, 249 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: this plot of land, I own all the water what's 250 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: the natural next step. If we're talk in capitalism, that 251 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: means I need more water. But what if the rain 252 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: start tripping because the climate change? What if the natural 253 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: process of how the weather cycle works starts getting out 254 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: of whack. What you're gonna do. You're gonna do what 255 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: anybody does. Well, I'm going to literally make it rain. 256 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: And there's a process of seeding clouds where you can 257 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: shoot these things into the clouds to make the rain 258 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: happen more, and you change the water cycle. You can 259 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: change the process of raining by seeding these clouds to 260 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: make it rain in a certain place at a certain 261 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: time more than what it normally does. So what does 262 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: that means? That means that areas that might have been 263 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: very wet you're usually waiting for their raine that comes 264 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: they come in October. The rains ain't come no more. 265 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: They happened a mile over right now. You got an 266 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: entire village all of a sudden the desert. You feel me, 267 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: because they ain't getting the rain. They always didn't. We 268 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: did that. This ain't science fiction, y'all. You could do this. 269 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: You can literally make it rain money, make it figure 270 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: out stuff boy, And you can also chap tap in 271 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: with the Safe Water Board or the Safe Drinking Water 272 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: Information System and it'll tell you where your water coming from. Again, 273 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: I'm a link all this stuff. So, like I said, 274 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: Callie has a has a combo of both. And we've 275 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: been in the worst drought in the last twelve hundred years. 276 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: Like me, it's lowest level since nineteen So what does 277 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: that mean. What that means is it's not so much. 278 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: Somebody finally says, Okay, that's it, no more drinking water. 279 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: What it says is, how do we allocate where the 280 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: water go Now? How do you allocate where the water goes? 281 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to something called a water right. 282 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: I'll tell you after the break bid them back. Now, 283 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: a water right. A water right now again, I'm specifically 284 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: talking California law. A water right is just exactly how 285 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: it sounds. Water right is the legal permission to use 286 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: a reasonable amount of water for a beneficial purpose, such 287 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: as swimming, fishing, farming, or industry. You're following me, so 288 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: be able to use this like reasonable amount. You can't 289 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: just like like I said, you can't, just like you 290 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: can't just build the dam and be like, yo, this 291 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: is my water and be like we're just talking about 292 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: come from the sky. It's not allowed. Now, most of you' 293 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: are not farming. I'm assuming some of y'all are, but 294 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,959 Speaker 1: most of you're not. But if you're farming, you need 295 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 1: a considerable amount of water. Now, if you are a Californian, 296 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: hopefully you understand that California is farm land. If you 297 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: ever drove from chu La Vista and then you went east, 298 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: you in wine country. It's a desert out there, right, 299 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: this is a weird desert, and there's some wine country 300 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: over there. Once you especially once you cross it to 301 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: the border, it's crazy like a lot of Baja California's 302 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: wine country. But if you're going north after you leave 303 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 1: the grape Vine, you know, going five north, after you 304 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: leave l A and then the surrounding areas in the 305 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: valley and you going north, it's cows, almonds, and avocado 306 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: till you in the Bay Area. That's most of California. 307 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: And then once you leave the Bay Area you might 308 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: as well be in Oregon. You got Lake Shasta, you 309 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: got way Rika like them is farming rural communities, they're 310 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: nothing like the cities. But the thing is the city 311 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: take up all the water but who feeding the city 312 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 1: the rest of California. See California in a lot of 313 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: some some people call California like we're America's garden. We 314 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: produce most of the produce photo country, which means we 315 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: use a lot of water. And the way the allocation works, 316 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: at least in California, according to our consortion is split 317 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: into three sections. Right, so go to environmental, go to agricultural, 318 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 1: and ten percent urban. So all the water in all 319 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: our cities is just ten percent of the water that's there. 320 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: And then fort go to agricultural. That's your vegetables, that's 321 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: your alvocados, that's your produce, that's your beef, that's your pork, 322 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: that's your in and out, that's your fatburger, that's everything everything. Look, 323 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: that's our water, and go there. We're running out of it. 324 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: So then the next question would be, like, well, who's 325 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: to say who gets water? And how do we make 326 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: sure that we could. I'm glad you asked, So then 327 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: I ask you who's responsible for administering water rights? Well, 328 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: in California, water rights laws administrated by the State Water 329 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: Resources Control Board, or called like I said, the State 330 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: Water Board, which is the division of Water rights on 331 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: behalf of the State Water Board for day to day matters. 332 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: The State Water Board is the only agency with the 333 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: authority to administer water rights in California. Local governments, water districts, 334 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,719 Speaker 1: and California Regional Water Supply Control Boards do not administer 335 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: water rights. The State Water Board shares the authority to 336 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: enforce water rights with the st Eight Courts. So this 337 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: whole board is the board that gets to say whether 338 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: your city get water or not, whether your city get 339 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,880 Speaker 1: enough water or not. Now, if you've been paying attention 340 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: at all in America, who you think gonna get their water? 341 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: Who you think this affects the most? We think sitting 342 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: at this table, I think them deals are made. Use 343 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: your antennas. Now I know her followed me on this. 344 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: Now he'll follow me on this if the allocations change, 345 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 1: if they say to themselves. And I know you've seen 346 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: it on the news, if you've actually watched the news 347 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 1: where it seems so far away. But then farmers out there, 348 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: you know that we all feel bad when we're driving 349 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,959 Speaker 1: by you seeing him Latino dudes out there, you know, 350 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: picking him strawberries, picking them things, and you feel bad 351 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 1: about him because it's hot his hell out there. But 352 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: sometimes I don't know if you've driven up there. Again, 353 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm talking to California specifically, you drive up the five 354 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: freeway and he has like, save our waters, save our farms. Right, 355 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: They're fighting for their rights, and a lot of times 356 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: these people don't like the city. They vote very differently 357 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: than us because we have hollering environment. But to them, 358 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: they like, y'all. Y'all don't get how this affects you 359 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 1: or us. We are your food. I don't think you 360 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: understand this. We are your food, So follow me. Hood. 361 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: If the people that make our food have to ration 362 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: and fight for the amount of water they have to 363 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: produce the produce, didn't that mean they're not gonna make 364 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: that much this time? They're not gonna be able to 365 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: make as many tomato? You know what I'm saying, ain't 366 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of apples. Now, understand supply and demand. 367 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: If they ain't a lot of them, what do you 368 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: think the price is gonna go The price is gonna 369 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: go up. And if you're a farmer who you're gonna 370 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 1: sail too, you're gonna sail to the person that can 371 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: afford it. So what does that mean? For us who 372 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: already believe we live in the food desert. Hope, they 373 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: ain't no whole foods in the hood. Ain't no Trader 374 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: Joels in the hood. You gotta go to you gotta 375 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: go to Pasadena, you gotta go to the West Side. 376 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: They're talking about fifteen dollars for a head of lettuce. 377 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: It's already too much. So who's gonna miss out? That's 378 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: that's us. The prices go up on us. There ain't 379 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: no blip on they map. They find. But if these 380 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: people ain't got enough water, they're gonna raise the price 381 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: for this food. And if they raise the price for 382 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: the food, they're gonna sail to the person that could 383 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: pay for it. Can your hood, your corner store pay 384 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: for this mine cane? Either this affects you directly, big dog, 385 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: the price of your groceries. Finnah, shoot up. Yeah. Let 386 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: me let me give you another example. You know, it's 387 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: water in your toilet, right and y'all got loaf low 388 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 1: flowing toilets. Anybody replaced it, you got you got one 389 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: of those filtration systems that you attached to the back 390 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: of your house, or no, because we don't own houses. 391 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: That's not and if you do, you're just trying to 392 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: make ends meet. So you so you haven't made your 393 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: house water friendly. You got sprinklers outside. Let me tell 394 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: you who're not draining their pools. They're not draining their 395 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: pools for our water. They cool they their water bill 396 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: can go down because they can replace their toilets. Their 397 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: grocery bill ain't changed at all. Ours did. So Now 398 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: me and you gotta decide which one of these things 399 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna pay for. You gonna pay for your water bill, 400 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna pass some vestibles, or you're gonna continue to 401 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: eat this trash food that's available to us. Oh so 402 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: then we get to continue to have diabetes. Right, Oh 403 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: so you can go see your doctor on your non healthcare. 404 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: It affects us, homie. It's this becomes our problem, just 405 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: like exact Lee, how this pandemic showed the holes in 406 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: the racism that's baked into our system the climate. Do 407 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: it too. It's we're gonna suffer, y'all. Remember when, uh, 408 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: when Malibu was on fire, that was it was awful. 409 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: Do you think they had any problem getting that fire 410 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 1: department over there the middle of a drought? You think 411 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: they were coming put our houses out that fast. I mean, 412 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: the fire department is county. You gotta get water from somewhere. 413 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: I mean, of course they're not gonna let the city bird. 414 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, how are you gonna cover that shortfall? 415 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: What would raise our water prices? You gotta get it 416 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 1: from somewhere. She's not enough. I mean, are you gonna 417 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: Are you gonna buy bottled water? Bottled from where? Somebody 418 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 1: owned that too? I got two words for you. Flint, Michigan. 419 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: They had a water issue in the city without telling 420 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: nobody got a new connect, and that new connect tapped 421 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: the body of water that was poisonous. Who's gonna suffer 422 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: from this? Now, let me step back and make a 423 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: bigger picture about climate change. Now, we had a gang 424 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: of snow recently up in the Sierra Nevada's. It was amazing. 425 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 1: It was like, oh we good, we out of the drive. Man. 426 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: We've been talking about drips my whole life in California. 427 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: But it got so hot so fast because of how 428 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: deforestation is moving so fast, you chop it down so 429 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 1: many trees that the temperature index has shot up so 430 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: high that that water or that snow went from snow 431 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: to vapor in fol days. We wasn't able to save 432 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: none of it. It just evaporated. It was gone. We 433 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: didn't all that snow gone because of how hot the 434 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: ground to dry and it's too hot outside, so it 435 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: just evaporated. And what's gonna happen is what we always know, 436 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: fire season on the way. It's gonna be longer, and 437 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: it's gonna be less water, and we're gonna suffer, and 438 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: your price is gonna go up. Now what else does 439 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: that mean? What that means is then not only do 440 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: your prices for your produce go up, the prices for 441 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: houses go up because now we have to make more 442 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: regulatory things to save the water that we have. So 443 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: that means your house had to get retrofitted. You gotta 444 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: figure out other things so to make sure that California's 445 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: houses that are made our water friendly. We already can't 446 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: afford no houses out here. That's why everybody leaving you 447 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: locked in. So what does that mean? Let's just say 448 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: you do get Grandma on their muddy and them house, right, 449 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: So now you got the house. I would lead thought 450 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: she ain't moved in a long time. Now you got 451 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 1: her house. The problem is your property value, and your 452 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: property taxes aren't covering the cost that takes for y'all 453 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,239 Speaker 1: to have a decent school because you know, schools are 454 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: funded by property taxes. But since y'all in the food desert, 455 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: your property value is low. Therefore your property taxes ain't 456 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: high enough there for your schools ain't getting enough funding. 457 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: I'm telling you this stuff is connected. So what does 458 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: that mean? What is our there for? Now? What do? 459 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: What do we do? Well? The first thing I think 460 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: we need to do is run for office. That's number one. 461 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: I need somebody from Watts sitting at the table with 462 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: the Water Council to be like, you're not gonna forget us. 463 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: I need somebody from Compton sitting at the table being like, listen, 464 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: If that's the case, then you'all need to build these apartments. 465 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: You'll need to build these homes with water friendly toilets 466 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: and sinks instead of punishing us for things we ain't 467 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: had nothing to do with. If that's the case, then 468 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: you'all need to walk into some of these places and 469 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: being like, listen, just walked by the Beverly Center. It's 470 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 1: a plot of grass out there that's not doing anything 471 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: for anybody. And I just saw the sprinklers turn on. 472 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: Why they get to have sprinklers? Don't get me wrong, 473 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: grass is great. What's up with the succulents? This is 474 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: a desert. You can playing some succulents. Why y'all get that. 475 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: But if we ain't got nobody at the table, if 476 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: we don't start telling the homies like, hey, listen, you 477 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: I care about this stuff. You feel me. And it's 478 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: not just your consumption of water. Water is used to 479 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: make things. Here's one thing you could do. Buy you 480 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: a little want them, a little brit of things to 481 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: attach to your your faucet. Get yourself one of them, 482 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: like mirror, like water bottles, reusable joints, feel your own 483 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: water bottom because it takes the water to make the plastic. Also, 484 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: and you don't need to be putting money into the 485 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: air k and in their pockets. Not only that, you 486 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: know how much money I'm not spending on bottled water 487 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: it come out to fuscet. I'm already paying for it. 488 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: That's part of this production of plastic is part of 489 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,479 Speaker 1: the climate change in the first place. Kay, little water bottle, 490 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: you're all right, it'd be yours too, girl. Fill it 491 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: with vodka. I don't care. All I'm saying is there 492 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: are little things we could do. Look great, goose, you 493 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know your mom got a 494 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: gang of wash cloths that are kind of raggedy that 495 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: every once in a while she used to clean the counter. 496 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: Maybe get that instead of paper towels. Maybe just get 497 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: a gang of water of wash cloths instead of paper towels. 498 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: And like, you know how much money you spend on ship, 499 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: you're just gonna throw away. I think about that every 500 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: once in a while. I ain't boy, no paper towel, 501 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: and I don't know how long because I'm like, I'm 502 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: throwing away. But this is ridiculous. Just wipe the kid, 503 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: counted down a little cloth joints. I mean, these are 504 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: like day little things. You feel me. But at the 505 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: end of the day, I know hood don't care about it. 506 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: But it's gonna hurt us the most. They're gonna it's 507 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: our prices, it's our homes, this is our food, this 508 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: food out of our mouth. I know it may seem 509 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: very far away, but I'm trying to tell you like 510 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 1: it's gonna hit us. The hardest and last thing I 511 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: want to talk about is rising sea levels. There's a 512 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: collection of cities that by the year and again, I 513 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: know that seems far away, but just finnaby gone. They're 514 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: gonna be underwater. And you like what you're talking about. 515 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: Proper niggas don't live at the beach. I'm like, oh word, 516 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: you ever been in New Orleans? It sinks two inches 517 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: a year? You know? In o l A. Yeah, Wally, 518 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: it's sinking. Houston sinking, candy paint gone. It's finna be underwater. Now, 519 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Think they're gonna give you 520 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: a voucher for your house after it's underwater? Where you're 521 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: gonna go? You in Houston, it's underwater where you're gonna go? 522 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: What ward? You weapon? Where are you gonna go? You 523 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: remember last time Houston and New Orleans was underwater? What 524 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: they do for us? I know that you show that 525 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: you heard the blank right there. That's what they did 526 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: for us. Eight American cities gonna be gone. It's pretty wild. 527 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: New Orleans already sinking, Miami, Florida probably gonna be underwater. 528 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: Sea levels rising faster there than anywhere else in the world. 529 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: Almost all of Atlantic City, Jersey for to be underwater. 530 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 1: Parts of New York areas of Charleston, South Carolina. These 531 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: places they get hit by hurricanes, they get hit hard. 532 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: And listen, this is what I know. Ain't nobody coming 533 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: for you? The ain't come for us the last time. 534 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 1: Ain't nobody coming for us, Bros. Part of New Orleans 535 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: still ufer in from Katrina. Oh they got the French 536 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: quarters is fine, They're not coming for us. This is so. 537 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is like, look, we need 538 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: to care about this, and we need to get some 539 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: of these some of these old geez. We need to 540 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: get some of y'all at the table. Start defending our 541 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: hoods like we defend our hoods outside. Let's defend them 542 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: at the table. Y'all with me, because I don't lobby 543 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: at the Congress for this. A few times I'm saying, no, 544 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: I'm not talking from the hood right now, I'm talking 545 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: to the hood. This all water, y'all. Ain't nobody can't 546 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: come help us except us, y'all with it on the hood, y'all. 547 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: This muggle was recorded and edited by me Propaganda right 548 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: here in East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles. Y'all can 549 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: follow me at prop hip Hop on all the socials. 550 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: You could follow the Hood Politics pod itself at pub 551 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: Politics Pod, where we'll be trying to make takes on 552 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: stuff that aren't really big enough for a whole episode, 553 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: but definitely needs a little bit of clarity. His mother 554 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: was scored, edited, mixed, and mastered by the one and 555 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: only Headlights. 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