LIVESTREAMS
Climate and Inequality
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TALKING CLIMATE: Beyond lies
Thursday, March 24 from 4-5pm EST
Over the 7 months, through our Beyond Lies participatory arts campaign with posters by Mona Chalabi, people around the world have joined the campaign to demand change. This initiative has invited the public to understand the fossil fuel industry's tactics, spread the word in their communities, and take civic action.
The panel, moderated by Climate Museum Director Miranda Massie, features: Mona Chalabi, illustrator and data journalist, creator of the Beyond Lies posters; Amy Westervelt, creator of Drilled and investigative journalist behind the Beyond Lies posters; Jasmine Wynn, NYC 11th grader, Climate Museum High School Internship Alumna, and Beyond Lies Ambassador.
TALKING CLIMATE: LABOR
Friday, November 5 from 2-3pm EST
In the last installment of this year’s climate and inequality discussion series, expert panelists will examine what kind of labor organizing and worker protections are necessary for this moment, what it means to work in coalition with labor leaders on climate, and how a just transition to a green economy can create new jobs and center climate justice.
The panel, moderated by Climate Museum Director Miranda Massie, features: expert panelists Eddie Bautista, Executive Director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; Jeff Goodell, journalist and Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone; Michael Leon Guerrero, Executive Director of the Labor Network for Sustainability; and Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, Former President of the New York State Nurses Association.
Talking Climate: HEALTH
Friday, July 9 from 1-2pm EST
The intertwined crises we face today—climate and inequality—have grave consequences for human health and collective wellbeing. Soaring temperatures exacerbate heat vulnerability in historically redlined neighborhoods; over one-third of heat-related deaths globally can be attributed to climate change, disproportionately impacting the already-vulnerable; and air pollution from fossil fuels kills 8.7 million people each year—a growing “public health emergency” that particularly endangers communities of color. These are just a few of the ways that the climate crisis intensifies inequality and allocates harm. In Talking Climate: Health, an interdisciplinary panel of experts will examine the health impacts of climate and inequality. The panelists will think together about how to achieve climate justice while advancing public health.
This panel, moderated by Climate Museum Director Miranda Massie, features: Kizzy Charles-Guzman, Deputy Director at the New York City Mayor's Office of Climate and Sustainability; Dr. Vijay Limaye, Climate and Health Scientist at NRDC's Science Center; and Peggy Shepard, Co-founder and Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
Talking Climate: Law
Friday, June 11 from 1-2pm EST
The word ‘law’ comes from the Old Norse for ‘something laid down or fixed.’ But the law, like the society that authors it in hope of stability, is in fact always in flux. It changes in response to emergent or newly recognized crises and struggles, even as it shapes their course. The two defining and interlinked crises of our time—climate and inequality—have generated countless legal developments. In Talking Climate: Law, an interdisciplinary panel examines some of the most critical and think together about their meaning for climate justice and progress.
This panel, moderated by Climate Museum director and former civil rights litigator Miranda Massie, includes: Vic Barrett, plaintiff in Juliana v. The United States and Democracy Organizer at Alliance for Climate Education; Ama R. Francis, Climate Displacement Project Strategist at International Refugee Assistance Project and non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law; and Brian Kahn, Managing Editor at Earther and lecturer at Columbia University’s MA Program in Climate and Society. With a reading by the celebrated poet Layli Long Soldier.
Talking Climate: Food
Friday, May 21 from 1-2pm EST
Every aspect of our food systems is affected by climate. How we get our food, where it comes from, what we eat, whose work ensures that food is available in the first place—are all also issues of justice. In this conversation, panelists will discuss food at the intersection of climate and inequality, including food access and sustainability; farmworkers’ rights; prospects for agricultural regeneration; and more. Like all of the Climate Museum’s programs, Talking Climate: Food aims to create ground for community-building, democratic engagement, and civic action on the climate crisis.
This panel, moderated by Climate Museum director Miranda Massie, includes: Tony Hillery, Founder and Executive Director of Harlem Grown; Arcenio J. López, Executive Director of Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project; Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. With a reading by the celebrated poet Dr. Craig Santos Perez.
Talking Climate: Identity
Friday, April 9 from 12-1pm EST
We inhabit a fossil fuel economy and culture. How has this central fact of our individual and collective existence shaped how we think about and experience identity? In this conversation, panelists will discuss questions about identity including the role of fossil fuel industry propaganda, and, conversely, activist commitments to climate justice; how hierarchies of race and gender structure our experience of identity in relation to climate; and more.
The panel, moderated by director Miranda Massie, includes Yessenia Funes, Climate Editor, Atmos Magazine; Sloan Leo, Artist and Founder, FLOX Studio; Jade Lozada, Policy Director, TREEage and Climate Speaks 2019 performer; and Amy Westervelt, Founder, Critical Frequency podcast network. With a reading by the celebrated poet Ada Limón.
TALKING CLIMATE: INFRASTRUCTURE
Friday, March 12 from 1-2pm EST
Current US infrastructure of all kinds locks in intolerable levels of inequality. Our energy infrastructure in particular guarantees the destabilization of the climate and planet that are the ultimate infrastructure for human thriving. At the same time, the potential for a transition to a just, resilient, and climate-stabilized future is shaping up. Which way forward?
The distinguished panel, moderated by our director Miranda Massie, includes Jainey Bavishi, Director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Resiliency; Julian Brave NoiseCat, Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum; and Justin J. Pearson, Co-Founder of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline and environmental justice activist.
TALKING CLIMATE: GRIEF
Friday, February 12 from 1-2pm EST
We looked together at the layering of loss and trauma that burdens communities across the U.S., particularly communities marginalized by racism, class oppression, and other systems of inequality. Like all our programs, Talking Climate: Grief aimed to create ground for community-building, democratic engagement, and civic action.
The extraordinary panel included Shahzeen Attari of Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Mary Annaïse Heglar, writer and podcaster; and Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Founder and CEO of Dayenu. The discussion was moderated by Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum, with a reading by poet Otaniyuwa Ehue to open the event.
Talking Climate: Displacements
Friday, January 8 from 1-2pm EST
We examined how the climate crisis has catalyzed new forms of uprooting, including climate gentrification, land loss, and forced migration. We also discussed ongoing displacements that shape how climate is experienced amid the long-standing inequalities and historical dispossessions that structure the present.
Expert panelists included Marleine Bastien, immigrant rights activist and Executive Director of the Family Action Network Movement, Vann R. Newkirk II, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Floodlines podcast creator, and Shavonne Smith, Director of the Shinnecock Indian Nation Environmental Department. The discussion was moderated by Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum, with a presentation by photographer Virginia Hanusik to open the event.
2020
Covid lessons for climate and Inequality: from Sacrifice Zones to Justice
Friday, September 24
The coronavirus crisis carries essential lessons for us all as we confront the climate emergency. Among the most critical are lessons about America’s profound inequality and its disastrous consequences for the physical and economic well-being of communities of color as well as the overall health of our society.
The panel, moderated by Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum, features: Eddie Bautista, Executive Director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; Cheryl Holder, President, Florida State Medical Association; Co-chair, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action; Brentin Mock, Writer and Editor, CityLab Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP Climate and Environmental Justice Program.
Black lives and the climate crisis
Monday, July 13
In this time of deep trauma and reckoning, we also encounter the promise of the Black Lives Matter protests, the largest movement in US history. This ongoing movement is raising the prospect of systemic change, including climate justice, just as youth climate activists have pushed climate justice to the center of mainstream political discourse. These shifts culminate struggle over centuries and decades, respectively, in the streets, the courts, and everyday life. They represent qualitatively new possibilities for justice, clarity, and connection.
Climate Museum Trustee Maxine Burkett of the Institute for Climate and Peace moderated a remarkable panel including Ana Maria Archila of the Center for Popular Democracy, Jerome Foster of OneMillionOfUs, Kate Marvel of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. With a special reading by Whiting Award Winner Aracelis Girmay of her poem You Are Who I Love.