No Better Time for Climate Reparations, with Tamara Toles O'Laughlin
The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but has re-emerged in the past year or two. Environmental activist, organizer, lawyer, and all-around climate expert Tamara Toles...
January 24, 202159m 10sExplicit
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The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but has re-emerged in the past year or two. Environmental activist, organizer, lawyer, and all-around climate expert Tamara Toles O'Laughlin joins us to talk about where this idea came from, why it disappeared, and why it's back...hopefully to stay.Further reading:Maxine Burkett's original paper on climate reparations: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539726"Climate Rage," by Naomi Klein in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-rage-193377/"No Money Down," by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky in Earth Island Journal https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/no_money_down/Four "The Case for Reparations" articles from recent history:Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/10/case-for-climate-reparations-crisis-migration-refugees-inequality/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/Sierra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/feature/the-case-for-climate-reparationsMother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/
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