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Raya Salter of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center Testimony 9-15-23

President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last August, since then, what's happened? Is the money getting spent? How do we ensure that it does more good than harm? Find Raya Salter on the internet: https://www.rayasalter.com/ https://twitter.com/RayaSalter https://instagram.com/ClimateAuntie Find Prof. Heather Tanana on the internet: https://twitter.com/HeatherTanana Additional production and writing by Aditi Bansal. References & Work Cited: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBpKaOIifaYD9M0GtT_j8XGDlkcowxeMv3auzbhjFJo/edit# This video is funded in part by the #LetsGetLoud Campaign, to learn more and get involved check out https://get-loud.org/ ** FIND ME ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET ** twitter :: http://www.twitter.com/zentouro instagram :: http://www.instagram.com/zentouro ** SUPPORT ** interested in supporting zentouro? Patreon allows me to keep my videos ad free, and independent. Even 1$ per video gets you access to all the behind the scenes content and helps immensely: https://www.patreon.com/zentouro All of my videos will always have closed captioning [CC] in English, and my Patrons fund Spanish captions for every video. Like the music? I subscribe to soundstripe to find backing tracks for all my videos. For 10% off use the code ZENTOURO at checkout. https://soundstripe.com?fpr=zentouro (this is an affiliate link) Previously titled: The US passed a climate bill, has anything happened yet?

This lecture explores the intersections of social policy, land use, energy justice and environmental justice from the perspective of some of the most preeminent environmental justice advocates, lawyers, and policy champions in the U.S. Raya Salter founded the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center and is a member of the NY Climate Action Council. She is in conversation with William Barber III, the founder and CEO of the Rural Beacon Initiative, and Angella Dunston, member of the League of Conservation Voters and NC Rural Center. This is a deep-dive conversation with those working at the forefront of environmental justice policy advocacy in North Carolina and the U.S. Access Wilson Lecture Archive: https://sanford.duke.edu/news-events/distinguished-lecture-series/wilson-lecture/ Find out more about the Energy and Environment theme at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy: https://sanford.duke.edu/faculty-research/key-themes/theme-energy-environment/

Hosted by Raya Salter, members of The Black Hive, including founder, Valencia Gunder, Wes Gobar, and Dr. Dominic Bednar, as well as singer songwriter AY Young shine a light on the need for global energy justice. Energy is power. How can that power, which has grown out of colonialism and slavery, be shifted to benefit everyone? COP 27, filled with big oil, coal and gas interests, failed to reach a deal to transition equitably and rapidly from fossil fuels, while people throughout the world lack affordable, clean energy and suffer environmental and climate injustice. The Black Hive is working to address the needs of people who have been marginalized and to find a pathway, by advocating programs like community solar, to equitable energy distribution. Edited by Glenn Goodwin Music by AY Young For more information, and to join the Black Hive, visit https://theblackhive.org/ For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.

#XiyeBastida, the 20-year-old Mexican activist and Dr. Stella Nyambura Mbau, whose work in Sub Saharan Africa fosters climate resilience, give firsthand testimony of the 'Loss and Damage' that has finally been included in the COP agenda. With hosts Raya Salter and Jem Bendell, they focus attention on the need for #ClimateJustice. While delegates give speeches, and industries parade their wares at the side shows of #COP27, people in countries around the world who have contributed the least to the climate crisis, continue to suffer. This year, the drought in East Africa severed food supply for 22 million people, while record monsoons in Pakistan took 1,500 lives and uprooted 33 million people. Mudslides inundated villages in Central America, killing dozens and displacing 560,000 people. Expectations are not high, but the US is signaling a willingness to discuss the issue more seriously. As movements worldwide focus on climate justice, there is an increasing need for climate activism to focus on solidarity among and with those most affected in the global South. Editor, Glenn Goodwin Music, At the Bazaar by David Fesliyan For more on Dr. Nyambura Mbau: https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/stella-nyambura-mbau-phd/ For more on Xiye Bastida: https://www.xiyebeara.com/ For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.

In a contentious Congressional hearing on big oil, #RayaSalter, climate attorney and host of Facing Future, was attacked by Republican climate deniers. She held her ground. Joined by Drs. Cha and Weber, she laid out the inequality and injustice that lie at the heart of the climate crisis. Petrochemical companies have made billions in profits while denying the realities of #ClimateChange. #Greenwashing their campaign of denial, they make inadequate pledges to reduce emissions by 2100 which, as Rep. Raskin points out, would take the world to 4 degrees C, well beyond the 1.5 goal, bringing conditions inconsistent with humanity’s survival. WIth so much at stake, MAGA Republicans, in coordination with big oil and gas companies, continue to block serious action. Let’s vote them out in the next election!

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