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Reducing Environmental Inequities - Wealth & Poverty Class 12
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Reducing Environmental Inequities - Wealth & Poverty Class 12

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Robert Reich
May 6
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Good morning again, class!

This week’s focus is in many ways an extension of last week’s focus on health and inequality, but this week we’ll examine the effects of climate change on inequality. In my view, it’s an issue that hasn’t gained nearly the attention it should.

If you’re finding these classes useful, I hope you’ll consider a paid subscription (or a gift subscription) to help us bring you even more.

Among the questions I’ll be addressing today are: How do environmental issues connect to wealth/income, racial, and geographic inequality? What role does environmental policy play in addressing this inequality? How will different communities be affected by climate change? What role do social movements play in addressing environmental justice issues?

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Click here for the Class 12 slides.

Looking for another session? Click the link for: Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4, Class 5, Class 6, Class 7, Class 8, Class 9, Class 10, Class 11, Class 13, Class 14.

Recommended readings (just click on the link):

  • Brad Blumer and Nadja Popovich, "How Decades of Racial Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering," New York Times, August 24, 2020

  • Vann Newkirk, "Fighting Environmental Racism in North Carolina," The New Yorker, January 16, 2016

  • Andrew Winston, "What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality," Harvard Business Review, September 24, 2019

  • Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna, "California Just Got Bipartisan Support to Extend its Cap and Trade Program to 2030," VOX July 17, 2017

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Carolin Schellhorn
May 6

The risks of accelerating climate change are underappreciated by the vast majority of voters. They increasingly threaten our food systems, our housing, our health, animals, biodiversity, ecosystems, and they promise more extreme weather....Climate change threatens our very existence, not in the distant future, but increasingly in the present. Adaptation is a good idea, but at the rate we are adapting and trying to slow down the changes, we are not going to make it. Low income and marginalized groups are going to suffer first, but everyone is affected and will ultimately find it hard or impossible to survive. Scientists have told us for decades, but the fossil fuel industry has a grip on our energy system, misinformation dissemination and politics. This literally is about life and death, and not only for our grandchildren. Did anyone notice the extreme heat in India and Pakistan? Scientists do not know when or where these kinds of things will happen next and how quickly it will get much worse. All we can do is change our lifestyles and decarbonize as quickly as possible. For environmental and climate justice, and also to save our collective lives.

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Vicki Rothbardt Oswald
May 8

My credit card on file has been chucked. I have a new card and I'd like to give it to you for contributing $5/month. How do I do that?

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