The Climate Museum Presents Talking Climate: Health, A Discussion on Climate, Inequality, and Health and How to Connect on Climate
New York, NY (July 2, 2021) — The Climate Museum is presenting Talking Climate: Health, a panel discussion on climate, inequality, and health on July 9, 2021, 1-2pm EST. It will be followed by How to Connect on Climate, a conversation focused on climate change communications from 2:15-2:55 pm EST.
Talking Climate: Health, is the next installment in the Museum’s Second Fridays, a free, online public education series. It will confront how current soaring temperatures and heat vulnerabilities emphasize the compounding crises of climate and inequality in the United States. The panel will examine and discuss the health impacts of climate and inequality and how we can think collectively about how to achieve climate justice while advancing public health. Like all of the Climate Museum’s programming, Talking Climate: Health aims to provide a foundation for community-building, democratic engagement, and civic action through an interdisciplinary panel of experts.
For further information, or to register visit: https://climatemuseum.org/second-fridays. ASL interpretation and live captioning will be provided.
The distinguished panel will be moderated by Climate Museum Director, Miranda Massie, and includes:
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
Peggy Shepard, Co-founder and Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice
“The searing temperatures we’ve seen in the Pacific Northwest and Canada this week showcase how the climate crisis isn’t an abstraction or future problem: it’s happening right now, and it’s endangering peoples’ lives, particularly those of the most vulnerable,” said Dilshanie Perera, Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at the Climate Museum. “Heat vulnerability isn’t an accident. It’s one effect of purposeful policies like redlining that were designed to exclude communities of color in cities. Talking Climate: Health offers us an opportunity to learn from experts about these questions of inequality and historical harm, as well as the work that activists, policy makers, and scientists are doing right now to move us toward a just and healthy climate future. We can take action together to bring that future into being.”
Our Second Fridays programming continues with How to Connect on Climate, a special interview with data and insights from climate change communications expert Dr. Edward Maibach, University Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. This program is available for a limited number of participants with a suggested donation of $25 on Friday, July 9 from 2:15-2:55 pm EST. RSVP here.
About the Climate Museum
The Climate Museum’s mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions. In its public programming to date, it has created an activist cultural approach to community engagement with climate, recognizing that most Americans are worried about the climate crisis but are unsure how to take meaningful action. The Museum’s free, accessible exhibitions, art installations, events, youth programs, and more have touched tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors and received extensive recognition, broadening the climate movement with an emphasis on community, justice, equity, and inclusion. Programs are presented at the museum’s exhibition hub on Governors Island, in parks, galleries, in venues citywide, and in 2020-2021 through virtual events. The Museum is currently scaling out to a permanent, year-round presence in New York City. Additional information is available at climatemuseum.org.
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