Speaker 1: While there is a joy and affortitude that's unspeakable from
Speaker 1: growing up in inner cities as a black person and
Speaker 1: indigenous or a person of color, there is a reality
Speaker 1: that you're kind of living most of the time in
Speaker 1: the red zone, which is kind of true for any
Speaker 1: sort of low income communities where you have to triage
Speaker 1: what's information and issues are worth your energy. You're still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out food, You're trying to figure out safety,
Speaker 1: and when you're black, you're trying to figure out the
Speaker 1: boys in blue. You know. So if you notice our elders,
Speaker 1: unless they are highly educated or have a few financial margins,
Speaker 1: they don't worry about stuff like therapy because we just
Speaker 1: don't want to have time for that, especially when it
Speaker 1: talks about politics, like you know, a lot of times, man,
Speaker 1: you ain't got time for that. You like, what's going
Speaker 1: on right here, things like foreign policy, Man, I ain't
Speaker 1: got time to worry about that is what's going on
Speaker 1: right here. We're dining in the streets. It's it's Maslow's
Speaker 1: hierarchy of needs. When I taught high school, it was
Speaker 1: one thing I used to teach them kids, and I
Speaker 1: actually designed my classroom around that. Quick primary. Naslow's hierarchy
Speaker 1: needs is just this like pyramid of things you gotta
Speaker 1: take care of. So your first part is like your
Speaker 1: basic needs food, water, warmth, shelter, rest, and then the
Speaker 1: next step above that. Once that's said, you can start
Speaker 1: talking about safety and security, and when you're in the
Speaker 1: hood that stuff kind of blends, right. Then you can
Speaker 1: deal with like emotional and psychological things like relationships and
Speaker 1: friends and you know, interpersonal skills, and then you can
Speaker 1: start talking about esteem and prestige and feeling accomplished. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's not that linear in real life, in anybody's life.
Speaker 1: The point I'm trying to make is what I want
Speaker 1: to know about World War two? If I don't know
Speaker 1: where the food at, we're talking about algebra, what I'm
Speaker 1: why would I go to school if my school cross
Speaker 1: town where I gotta cross arrival and stay. Especially Tom,
Speaker 1: let's go to this after school y m C A
Speaker 1: program like wooll you know who live over there? I'm
Speaker 1: not good over there, ain't going over there. And then
Speaker 1: finally the top of Maslow's thing is self actualization and
Speaker 1: and then we could start really getting meta about stuff.
Speaker 1: But you can't get meta. You don't know where the
Speaker 1: food coming from. If I feel like I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: make at home safe, you think inter city kids ain't
Speaker 1: interested in what you're talking about. They got other stuff
Speaker 1: worried about. So I used to spend most of the
Speaker 1: first month or two of my class creating safety. You know,
Speaker 1: packing extra food, fire me, you know whatever, I got
Speaker 1: snacks in my my drawer. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like it's an extra water bottle. Like because they basic
Speaker 1: needs met for I could start talking about heavier stuff.
Speaker 1: You worry about algebra and he's trying to eat. Also,
Speaker 1: when it comes to things like climate change, foods don't care.
Speaker 1: It just seems so far off. Today, I want to
Speaker 1: make a case for what the hood should care because
Speaker 1: it is about your basic need needs. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: climate change for the politics, right name y'all. So today
Speaker 1: I want to kind of introduce a different type of show.
Speaker 1: This is a little different. This show is not necessarily
Speaker 1: talking from the hood, but talking to the hood. There's
Speaker 1: things that like people where I come from, they just
Speaker 1: don't they just don't talk about. They don't really care
Speaker 1: about because it don't feel like it's an issue I
Speaker 1: need to worry about. The old zone layer, like you,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You know those are things
Speaker 1: that you know from the city. Is that's when they
Speaker 1: look at me like this little nega weird. That's you
Speaker 1: just don't care about things like that because you got
Speaker 1: other stuff you're worried about. And I totally understand it.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the therapy thing. I know my
Speaker 1: my parents they talked about there. We did that at church.
Speaker 1: You went to counseling with the past. A lot of
Speaker 1: our needs, you know, especially in the black community, was
Speaker 1: met by the church, which is why Western evangelical stuff
Speaker 1: just especially when you're not from like white church. That's
Speaker 1: that's just don't make sense to us. Spending You're sending
Speaker 1: people all the way to Peru and Venezuela while you
Speaker 1: live literally across the street from one of the poorest
Speaker 1: neighborhoods in your city. You know what I'm saying, You
Speaker 1: ain't done nothing for them, so you just like, y'all
Speaker 1: needs are met, so you could look somewhere else. But
Speaker 1: when your needs ain't met, it's just I just don't
Speaker 1: have time for those things today. I want to make
Speaker 1: a case now that I got some margins that to
Speaker 1: continue the metaphor, man, you should go to therapy. We
Speaker 1: could use it. It's actually money well spent. And then
Speaker 1: when you start doing professional therapy again, you got the
Speaker 1: money to spare to do it right too, not need
Speaker 1: to find like a black therapist because you're looking across
Speaker 1: the table like there's no way in the world. Just dude,
Speaker 1: understand what I'm going through. Institutional, psychological, generational tryming like
Speaker 1: you don't get that. There's so much more going on here.
Speaker 1: That is hard talking to a perse saying who just
Speaker 1: ain't experience with your experience, It just don't seem it
Speaker 1: don't seem real. What I'm trying to say is I
Speaker 1: feel you because I'm from that. So now this is
Speaker 1: me after being able to learn a lot of things,
Speaker 1: travel across the world and rather than just be a
Speaker 1: representative of people that came from where I'm crying from
Speaker 1: that have gotten to go do other things. Now I'm
Speaker 1: turning back and I'm saying, hey, yo, squad family, this
Speaker 1: mug affects us, and it affects us in ways that
Speaker 1: we haven't noticed. We need to talk about this now now.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't hear this Like I'm not saying
Speaker 1: here become another thing we need to care about. Like
Speaker 1: now I'm exhausted. That's not what I'm saying, or I'm
Speaker 1: not saying we need to care about this instead of
Speaker 1: the other stuff we're caring about. What I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say is all of this stuff is connected, and it
Speaker 1: all feeds the same infrastructure that for some reason it's
Speaker 1: hell bent on destroying us. So follow me. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to take away from nothing else. I'm trying to say, hey,
Speaker 1: but also this mug is connected. So listen, y'all. Everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to the conversation, but I want you to know
Speaker 1: I'm specifically talking to our inner cities and specifically working
Speaker 1: class persons of color. But of course listening because everybody's welcome,
Speaker 1: all right, And I'm a specifically focused on California. Now California,
Speaker 1: actually the whole western part of the country is in
Speaker 1: one of the biggest droughts it's ever been in since
Speaker 1: the last twelve hundred years. Like we get our water
Speaker 1: from Colorado River into this reservoir called Lake Mead. Now
Speaker 1: Lake Mead is at its lowest amount of water they say,
Speaker 1: when it gets under or one thousand seventy feet it
Speaker 1: in imediately triggers a water shortage. And what's hard about
Speaker 1: this is it just seems so far away. The way
Speaker 1: we understand it is very simple. The water turn off
Speaker 1: if I don't pay the bill, that's why. That's how
Speaker 1: you get water, but paying the bill. And also this
Speaker 1: is crazy. It come out the sky. I don't understand
Speaker 1: why anybody gotta how is this so hard? But if
Speaker 1: you're from Cali, you know it don't rain a lot.
Speaker 1: We have these series of droughts to happen all the time.
Speaker 1: You remember the little commercials about that drought is real,
Speaker 1: and you just don't you you don't really feel it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hot, real hot. And then I used
Speaker 1: to say, I always say that California got like we
Speaker 1: do have seasons. We have summer, we have fire, we
Speaker 1: got two weeks of rain, and we got mud slide seasons,
Speaker 1: and then summer again, that's that's our season. But if
Speaker 1: you haven't noticed that fire season has gotten increasingly longer
Speaker 1: and that rain season has gotten increasingly shorter. But again,
Speaker 1: it still feels so are away. What I want to
Speaker 1: do is I want to take it back home and
Speaker 1: process some things. But let's back up for a second
Speaker 1: lake mead water droute. What that got to do with
Speaker 1: your water bill? Well, let me light you up with
Speaker 1: real quick with this Who owned the water? Have you
Speaker 1: ever asked that question? You ever thought about that? And
Speaker 1: it seems stupid because it fall out the sky, you like,
Speaker 1: nigga god on the water? What is you talking about?
Speaker 1: But when you look at that water bottle, that's say,
Speaker 1: no Crystal geyser Mountain spring water you know bottled at
Speaker 1: the mountain somebody you think they just ran up to
Speaker 1: a random place and built a factory and just put
Speaker 1: them plastic bottles. And you can't just do that. You
Speaker 1: gotta buy at somebody bought the water. I'm let this
Speaker 1: sink in. Somebody owned the water. Now across the country
Speaker 1: there is a combination of private and public consortions of
Speaker 1: where your water comes from. And you could do your
Speaker 1: googles to figure out if your water come from a
Speaker 1: private company or not. And I know that sounds weird
Speaker 1: because you like it comes from the city, just like
Speaker 1: your electric bill, just like your power but it comes
Speaker 1: from the city. You you're looking at the power plant,
Speaker 1: you know, up the street around the corner. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, if you're down there, and if you're
Speaker 1: down here in l A down in Long Beach, right
Speaker 1: at the end of the twenty two, in the four
Speaker 1: or five, it's a big old water thing right at
Speaker 1: the end of that. You like, it's next to the ocean.
Speaker 1: What do you mean it's seventy of the earth water.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about, Well, you know we can't drink
Speaker 1: most of that. We're talking about fresh water. Somebody own
Speaker 1: that water. And if you own water, will, where does
Speaker 1: water come from? Either the groundwater? You know, I'm taking
Speaker 1: you back to seventh grade. All the water that's ever
Speaker 1: been here is still here. That's the water cycle. It evaporates,
Speaker 1: makes a cloud, and then it rains. But if I
Speaker 1: own the body of water, don't that mean I own
Speaker 1: the rain let that sink in? Somebody own the rain right,
Speaker 1: and of course that's over a particular part of the
Speaker 1: ground that they bought, but you can own it. Now.
Speaker 1: In California, there's certain things called water rights. Will we'll
Speaker 1: get into a little later. And then with runoff, right,
Speaker 1: So if there's a part of a natural spring that
Speaker 1: kind of sprouts off into a different part that you
Speaker 1: don't own. According to California law. Okay, you ain't got
Speaker 1: no rights over that. That's like public domain. Man. You
Speaker 1: can't just you can't just take the stream now. You can't.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to bend the stream. Now. If you've
Speaker 1: been the stream, you gotta go get permits for that.
Speaker 1: But I need you to listen to me. Somebody can
Speaker 1: bend the stream. But I want to go back to
Speaker 1: your utilities. You think they're coming from the city. You
Speaker 1: think that's public. That's not necessarily true. Now I'm a
Speaker 1: quote from the I'm gonna give y'all ganga links today
Speaker 1: because uh, I need you to go do your homework
Speaker 1: and it's too big for me to like really process
Speaker 1: at all. But u n C has this thing called
Speaker 1: the Environmental Finance Blog that I would love for y'all
Speaker 1: to understand, like how the money is going, So think
Speaker 1: of it like this. I'm a quote from there. Check
Speaker 1: this out. The dynamic between public and private systems have
Speaker 1: always been interesting, especially in the case of water and
Speaker 1: wastewater systems. Public water systems are usually nonprofit entities managed
Speaker 1: by a local or state government, for which rates are
Speaker 1: set by a governing board. But on the other hand,
Speaker 1: private water systems can be a for profit system managed
Speaker 1: by investors and shareholders. Though rates are monitored by state's
Speaker 1: public commission, private systems are not necessarily subject to a
Speaker 1: regulating board. Additionally, the difference between public and private are
Speaker 1: not always to stink. Now translation, you may not know
Speaker 1: because it's not clear who actually owns your water. You
Speaker 1: can't make no assumptions about this stuff. These are things
Speaker 1: you got to find out because the blend between public
Speaker 1: and private is very blurry. Now, let me give you
Speaker 1: some street stuff. If the water is the brick of cocaine,
Speaker 1: so the water is the way, right, what a plug
Speaker 1: plug Columbia, the club, the plug private, but private connect
Speaker 1: with the streets to cut that crack up and distribute
Speaker 1: it to y'all. So you're yelling at the crack dealer.
Speaker 1: Crack dealer, don't set the prices. The plug do, and
Speaker 1: there's nobody over the plug to make sure that then
Speaker 1: prices is fair. Because what you're gonna do not have water.
Speaker 1: Walk with me, Walk with me, y'all. So even the
Speaker 1: prices of your water, you may or may not know,
Speaker 1: you might be funding somebody private. And how does that
Speaker 1: work with the city where the city buys the water
Speaker 1: in bulk So Corporation a run up to Lake So
Speaker 1: and so by the whole lake and all the rain
Speaker 1: that comes thereof And then they say, I sell it
Speaker 1: to you in a brick form. I say you the
Speaker 1: whole thing. You'all can distribute however we want, but we
Speaker 1: need our money and that's what we're charging. And then
Speaker 1: they say, hey, and check this out. I got a
Speaker 1: homeboy over here that can treat the water for you
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's drinkable. But you gotta pay
Speaker 1: them too, though. That's part of the deal. So you
Speaker 1: gotta work with both of us. Now you gotta think
Speaker 1: about where your water coming from. Is this public or
Speaker 1: private or some consortion of both, And it's really hard
Speaker 1: to find out. California we got combos. Now you can
Speaker 1: look up your own district to kind of figure it out,
Speaker 1: but basically California is ran by what's called get this
Speaker 1: the water board. I know I'm burnt out. There is
Speaker 1: this thing called seeding clouds, which you can look China
Speaker 1: been doing it for a while. So essentially, if you
Speaker 1: own a plot of land, right and you say to yourself,
Speaker 1: this plot of land, I own all the water what's
Speaker 1: the natural next step. If we're talk in capitalism, that
Speaker 1: means I need more water. But what if the rain
Speaker 1: start tripping because the climate change? What if the natural
Speaker 1: process of how the weather cycle works starts getting out
Speaker 1: of whack. What you're gonna do. You're gonna do what
Speaker 1: anybody does. Well, I'm going to literally make it rain.
Speaker 1: And there's a process of seeding clouds where you can
Speaker 1: shoot these things into the clouds to make the rain
Speaker 1: happen more, and you change the water cycle. You can
Speaker 1: change the process of raining by seeding these clouds to
Speaker 1: make it rain in a certain place at a certain
Speaker 1: time more than what it normally does. So what does
Speaker 1: that means? That means that areas that might have been
Speaker 1: very wet you're usually waiting for their raine that comes
Speaker 1: they come in October. The rains ain't come no more.
Speaker 1: They happened a mile over right now. You got an
Speaker 1: entire village all of a sudden the desert. You feel me,
Speaker 1: because they ain't getting the rain. They always didn't. We
Speaker 1: did that. This ain't science fiction, y'all. You could do this.
Speaker 1: You can literally make it rain money, make it figure
Speaker 1: out stuff boy, And you can also chap tap in
Speaker 1: with the Safe Water Board or the Safe Drinking Water
Speaker 1: Information System and it'll tell you where your water coming from. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm a link all this stuff. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: Callie has a has a combo of both. And we've
Speaker 1: been in the worst drought in the last twelve hundred years.
Speaker 1: Like me, it's lowest level since nineteen So what does
Speaker 1: that mean. What that means is it's not so much.
Speaker 1: Somebody finally says, Okay, that's it, no more drinking water.
Speaker 1: What it says is, how do we allocate where the
Speaker 1: water go Now? How do you allocate where the water goes?
Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to something called a water right.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you after the break bid them back. Now,
Speaker 1: a water right. A water right now again, I'm specifically
Speaker 1: talking California law. A water right is just exactly how
Speaker 1: it sounds. Water right is the legal permission to use
Speaker 1: a reasonable amount of water for a beneficial purpose, such
Speaker 1: as swimming, fishing, farming, or industry. You're following me, so
Speaker 1: be able to use this like reasonable amount. You can't
Speaker 1: just like like I said, you can't, just like you
Speaker 1: can't just build the dam and be like, yo, this
Speaker 1: is my water and be like we're just talking about
Speaker 1: come from the sky. It's not allowed. Now, most of you'
Speaker 1: are not farming. I'm assuming some of y'all are, but
Speaker 1: most of you're not. But if you're farming, you need
Speaker 1: a considerable amount of water. Now, if you are a Californian,
Speaker 1: hopefully you understand that California is farm land. If you
Speaker 1: ever drove from chu La Vista and then you went east,
Speaker 1: you in wine country. It's a desert out there, right,
Speaker 1: this is a weird desert, and there's some wine country
Speaker 1: over there. Once you especially once you cross it to
Speaker 1: the border, it's crazy like a lot of Baja California's
Speaker 1: wine country. But if you're going north after you leave
Speaker 1: the grape Vine, you know, going five north, after you
Speaker 1: leave l A and then the surrounding areas in the
Speaker 1: valley and you going north, it's cows, almonds, and avocado
Speaker 1: till you in the Bay Area. That's most of California.
Speaker 1: And then once you leave the Bay Area you might
Speaker 1: as well be in Oregon. You got Lake Shasta, you
Speaker 1: got way Rika like them is farming rural communities, they're
Speaker 1: nothing like the cities. But the thing is the city
Speaker 1: take up all the water but who feeding the city
Speaker 1: the rest of California. See California in a lot of
Speaker 1: some some people call California like we're America's garden. We
Speaker 1: produce most of the produce photo country, which means we
Speaker 1: use a lot of water. And the way the allocation works,
Speaker 1: at least in California, according to our consortion is split
Speaker 1: into three sections. Right, so go to environmental, go to agricultural,
Speaker 1: and ten percent urban. So all the water in all
Speaker 1: our cities is just ten percent of the water that's there.
Speaker 1: And then fort go to agricultural. That's your vegetables, that's
Speaker 1: your alvocados, that's your produce, that's your beef, that's your pork,
Speaker 1: that's your in and out, that's your fatburger, that's everything everything. Look,
Speaker 1: that's our water, and go there. We're running out of it.
Speaker 1: So then the next question would be, like, well, who's
Speaker 1: to say who gets water? And how do we make
Speaker 1: sure that we could. I'm glad you asked, So then
Speaker 1: I ask you who's responsible for administering water rights? Well,
Speaker 1: in California, water rights laws administrated by the State Water
Speaker 1: Resources Control Board, or called like I said, the State
Speaker 1: Water Board, which is the division of Water rights on
Speaker 1: behalf of the State Water Board for day to day matters.
Speaker 1: The State Water Board is the only agency with the
Speaker 1: authority to administer water rights in California. Local governments, water districts,
Speaker 1: and California Regional Water Supply Control Boards do not administer
Speaker 1: water rights. The State Water Board shares the authority to
Speaker 1: enforce water rights with the st Eight Courts. So this
Speaker 1: whole board is the board that gets to say whether
Speaker 1: your city get water or not, whether your city get
Speaker 1: enough water or not. Now, if you've been paying attention
Speaker 1: at all in America, who you think gonna get their water?
Speaker 1: Who you think this affects the most? We think sitting
Speaker 1: at this table, I think them deals are made. Use
Speaker 1: your antennas. Now I know her followed me on this.
Speaker 1: Now he'll follow me on this if the allocations change,
Speaker 1: if they say to themselves. And I know you've seen
Speaker 1: it on the news, if you've actually watched the news
Speaker 1: where it seems so far away. But then farmers out there,
Speaker 1: you know that we all feel bad when we're driving
Speaker 1: by you seeing him Latino dudes out there, you know,
Speaker 1: picking him strawberries, picking them things, and you feel bad
Speaker 1: about him because it's hot his hell out there. But
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't know if you've driven up there. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to California specifically, you drive up the five
Speaker 1: freeway and he has like, save our waters, save our farms. Right,
Speaker 1: They're fighting for their rights, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: these people don't like the city. They vote very differently
Speaker 1: than us because we have hollering environment. But to them,
Speaker 1: they like, y'all. Y'all don't get how this affects you
Speaker 1: or us. We are your food. I don't think you
Speaker 1: understand this. We are your food, So follow me. Hood.
Speaker 1: If the people that make our food have to ration
Speaker 1: and fight for the amount of water they have to
Speaker 1: produce the produce, didn't that mean they're not gonna make
Speaker 1: that much this time? They're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: make as many tomato? You know what I'm saying, ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of apples. Now, understand supply and demand.
Speaker 1: If they ain't a lot of them, what do you
Speaker 1: think the price is gonna go The price is gonna
Speaker 1: go up. And if you're a farmer who you're gonna
Speaker 1: sail too, you're gonna sail to the person that can
Speaker 1: afford it. So what does that mean? For us who
Speaker 1: already believe we live in the food desert. Hope, they
Speaker 1: ain't no whole foods in the hood. Ain't no Trader
Speaker 1: Joels in the hood. You gotta go to you gotta
Speaker 1: go to Pasadena, you gotta go to the West Side.
Speaker 1: They're talking about fifteen dollars for a head of lettuce.
Speaker 1: It's already too much. So who's gonna miss out? That's
Speaker 1: that's us. The prices go up on us. There ain't
Speaker 1: no blip on they map. They find. But if these
Speaker 1: people ain't got enough water, they're gonna raise the price
Speaker 1: for this food. And if they raise the price for
Speaker 1: the food, they're gonna sail to the person that could
Speaker 1: pay for it. Can your hood, your corner store pay
Speaker 1: for this mine cane? Either this affects you directly, big dog,
Speaker 1: the price of your groceries. Finnah, shoot up. Yeah. Let
Speaker 1: me let me give you another example. You know, it's
Speaker 1: water in your toilet, right and y'all got loaf low
Speaker 1: flowing toilets. Anybody replaced it, you got you got one
Speaker 1: of those filtration systems that you attached to the back
Speaker 1: of your house, or no, because we don't own houses.
Speaker 1: That's not and if you do, you're just trying to
Speaker 1: make ends meet. So you so you haven't made your
Speaker 1: house water friendly. You got sprinklers outside. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you who're not draining their pools. They're not draining their
Speaker 1: pools for our water. They cool they their water bill
Speaker 1: can go down because they can replace their toilets. Their
Speaker 1: grocery bill ain't changed at all. Ours did. So Now
Speaker 1: me and you gotta decide which one of these things
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay for. You gonna pay for your water bill,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pass some vestibles, or you're gonna continue to
Speaker 1: eat this trash food that's available to us. Oh so
Speaker 1: then we get to continue to have diabetes. Right, Oh
Speaker 1: so you can go see your doctor on your non healthcare.
Speaker 1: It affects us, homie. It's this becomes our problem, just
Speaker 1: like exact Lee, how this pandemic showed the holes in
Speaker 1: the racism that's baked into our system the climate. Do
Speaker 1: it too. It's we're gonna suffer, y'all. Remember when, uh,
Speaker 1: when Malibu was on fire, that was it was awful.
Speaker 1: Do you think they had any problem getting that fire
Speaker 1: department over there the middle of a drought? You think
Speaker 1: they were coming put our houses out that fast. I mean,
Speaker 1: the fire department is county. You gotta get water from somewhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course they're not gonna let the city bird.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, how are you gonna cover that shortfall?
Speaker 1: What would raise our water prices? You gotta get it
Speaker 1: from somewhere. She's not enough. I mean, are you gonna
Speaker 1: Are you gonna buy bottled water? Bottled from where? Somebody
Speaker 1: owned that too? I got two words for you. Flint, Michigan.
Speaker 1: They had a water issue in the city without telling
Speaker 1: nobody got a new connect, and that new connect tapped
Speaker 1: the body of water that was poisonous. Who's gonna suffer
Speaker 1: from this? Now, let me step back and make a
Speaker 1: bigger picture about climate change. Now, we had a gang
Speaker 1: of snow recently up in the Sierra Nevada's. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh we good, we out of the drive. Man.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about drips my whole life in California.
Speaker 1: But it got so hot so fast because of how
Speaker 1: deforestation is moving so fast, you chop it down so
Speaker 1: many trees that the temperature index has shot up so
Speaker 1: high that that water or that snow went from snow
Speaker 1: to vapor in fol days. We wasn't able to save
Speaker 1: none of it. It just evaporated. It was gone. We
Speaker 1: didn't all that snow gone because of how hot the
Speaker 1: ground to dry and it's too hot outside, so it
Speaker 1: just evaporated. And what's gonna happen is what we always know,
Speaker 1: fire season on the way. It's gonna be longer, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be less water, and we're gonna suffer, and
Speaker 1: your price is gonna go up. Now what else does
Speaker 1: that mean? What that means is then not only do
Speaker 1: your prices for your produce go up, the prices for
Speaker 1: houses go up because now we have to make more
Speaker 1: regulatory things to save the water that we have. So
Speaker 1: that means your house had to get retrofitted. You gotta
Speaker 1: figure out other things so to make sure that California's
Speaker 1: houses that are made our water friendly. We already can't
Speaker 1: afford no houses out here. That's why everybody leaving you
Speaker 1: locked in. So what does that mean? Let's just say
Speaker 1: you do get Grandma on their muddy and them house, right,
Speaker 1: So now you got the house. I would lead thought
Speaker 1: she ain't moved in a long time. Now you got
Speaker 1: her house. The problem is your property value, and your
Speaker 1: property taxes aren't covering the cost that takes for y'all
Speaker 1: to have a decent school because you know, schools are
Speaker 1: funded by property taxes. But since y'all in the food desert,
Speaker 1: your property value is low. Therefore your property taxes ain't
Speaker 1: high enough there for your schools ain't getting enough funding.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this stuff is connected. So what does
Speaker 1: that mean? What is our there for? Now? What do?
Speaker 1: What do we do? Well? The first thing I think
Speaker 1: we need to do is run for office. That's number one.
Speaker 1: I need somebody from Watts sitting at the table with
Speaker 1: the Water Council to be like, you're not gonna forget us.
Speaker 1: I need somebody from Compton sitting at the table being like, listen,
Speaker 1: If that's the case, then you'all need to build these apartments.
Speaker 1: You'll need to build these homes with water friendly toilets
Speaker 1: and sinks instead of punishing us for things we ain't
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with. If that's the case, then
Speaker 1: you'all need to walk into some of these places and
Speaker 1: being like, listen, just walked by the Beverly Center. It's
Speaker 1: a plot of grass out there that's not doing anything
Speaker 1: for anybody. And I just saw the sprinklers turn on.
Speaker 1: Why they get to have sprinklers? Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: grass is great. What's up with the succulents? This is
Speaker 1: a desert. You can playing some succulents. Why y'all get that.
Speaker 1: But if we ain't got nobody at the table, if
Speaker 1: we don't start telling the homies like, hey, listen, you
Speaker 1: I care about this stuff. You feel me. And it's
Speaker 1: not just your consumption of water. Water is used to
Speaker 1: make things. Here's one thing you could do. Buy you
Speaker 1: a little want them, a little brit of things to
Speaker 1: attach to your your faucet. Get yourself one of them,
Speaker 1: like mirror, like water bottles, reusable joints, feel your own
Speaker 1: water bottom because it takes the water to make the plastic. Also,
Speaker 1: and you don't need to be putting money into the
Speaker 1: air k and in their pockets. Not only that, you
Speaker 1: know how much money I'm not spending on bottled water
Speaker 1: it come out to fuscet. I'm already paying for it.
Speaker 1: That's part of this production of plastic is part of
Speaker 1: the climate change in the first place. Kay, little water bottle,
Speaker 1: you're all right, it'd be yours too, girl. Fill it
Speaker 1: with vodka. I don't care. All I'm saying is there
Speaker 1: are little things we could do. Look great, goose, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know your mom got a
Speaker 1: gang of wash cloths that are kind of raggedy that
Speaker 1: every once in a while she used to clean the counter.
Speaker 1: Maybe get that instead of paper towels. Maybe just get
Speaker 1: a gang of water of wash cloths instead of paper towels.
Speaker 1: And like, you know how much money you spend on ship,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna throw away. I think about that every
Speaker 1: once in a while. I ain't boy, no paper towel,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how long because I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: throwing away. But this is ridiculous. Just wipe the kid,
Speaker 1: counted down a little cloth joints. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: like day little things. You feel me. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I know hood don't care about it.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna hurt us the most. They're gonna it's
Speaker 1: our prices, it's our homes, this is our food, this
Speaker 1: food out of our mouth. I know it may seem
Speaker 1: very far away, but I'm trying to tell you like
Speaker 1: it's gonna hit us. The hardest and last thing I
Speaker 1: want to talk about is rising sea levels. There's a
Speaker 1: collection of cities that by the year and again, I
Speaker 1: know that seems far away, but just finnaby gone. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be underwater. And you like what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Proper niggas don't live at the beach. I'm like, oh word,
Speaker 1: you ever been in New Orleans? It sinks two inches
Speaker 1: a year? You know? In o l A. Yeah, Wally,
Speaker 1: it's sinking. Houston sinking, candy paint gone. It's finna be underwater. Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Think they're gonna give you
Speaker 1: a voucher for your house after it's underwater? Where you're
Speaker 1: gonna go? You in Houston, it's underwater where you're gonna go?
Speaker 1: What ward? You weapon? Where are you gonna go? You
Speaker 1: remember last time Houston and New Orleans was underwater? What
Speaker 1: they do for us? I know that you show that
Speaker 1: you heard the blank right there. That's what they did
Speaker 1: for us. Eight American cities gonna be gone. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: New Orleans already sinking, Miami, Florida probably gonna be underwater.
Speaker 1: Sea levels rising faster there than anywhere else in the world.
Speaker 1: Almost all of Atlantic City, Jersey for to be underwater.
Speaker 1: Parts of New York areas of Charleston, South Carolina. These
Speaker 1: places they get hit by hurricanes, they get hit hard.
Speaker 1: And listen, this is what I know. Ain't nobody coming
Speaker 1: for you? The ain't come for us the last time.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody coming for us, Bros. Part of New Orleans
Speaker 1: still ufer in from Katrina. Oh they got the French
Speaker 1: quarters is fine, They're not coming for us. This is so.
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is like, look, we need
Speaker 1: to care about this, and we need to get some
Speaker 1: of these some of these old geez. We need to
Speaker 1: get some of y'all at the table. Start defending our
Speaker 1: hoods like we defend our hoods outside. Let's defend them
Speaker 1: at the table. Y'all with me, because I don't lobby
Speaker 1: at the Congress for this. A few times I'm saying, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking from the hood right now, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to the hood. This all water, y'all. Ain't nobody can't
Speaker 1: come help us except us, y'all with it on the hood, y'all.
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