YBF POLITICS: Yes, Climate Change Affects Systemic Racism - The Co-Writer Of The Green New Deal Makes The Case For Climate Stimulus Coin

Natasha says not enough black people are talking about climate change and the racism it feeds, so she tapped in the co-writer of the unnecessarily controversial Green New Deal – Yale grad, Rhodes Scholar & Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute, Rhiana Gunn Wright – to talk about ALL the things. Watch & listen inside!

Climate Change affects systemic racism, our health, our rent, cancer possibilities based on where we live - basically our everyday lives.  And it's not just about cow farts.  There's a reason certain folks don't care about making the environment more livable - because climate change disproportionately negatively affects people of color. 

i would laugh if stuff like this wasn't so dangerous https://t.co/qHkekdrrwR

— Rhiana Gunn-Wright (@rgunns) October 31, 2020

in celebration of our new paper, i'll be reviving an old tradition: a GND explainer thread!

this time we're talking about green stimulus! which, if done right, can provide a down payment/first steps to a GND.

ready? let's go https://t.co/WlKcf4MM0m

— Rhiana Gunn-Wright (@rgunns) October 29, 2020

Rhiana and Natasha talk a little "Real Housewives", a little Green New Deal drama, why allergies & asthma won't let us LIVE, why we deserve checks from a climate stimulus and they give the blueprint to everything you need to know about climate policy and where the GND currently stands in Congress (in committee in the House).

Follow Rhiana on Twitter & Instagram and check out her latest paper below!

it's out! the paper is out

all stimulus policy can affect our climate and emissions levels – especially now. we lost the solid ground on climate years ago; we're on a seesaw now. "neutral" doesn't exist. https://t.co/hYc8Ogzy2Y

— Rhiana Gunn-Wright (@rgunns) October 29, 2020

 

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