Climate change is a reality that every single one of use will have to deal with. There is a universality to it, a global truth, that in theory, should transcend all the things that divide us.
But it doesn’t and it hasn’t. In huge part, because the people who are already feeling the impacts of climate change are mostly people of colour or are from parts of the world with significantly less power than the largest polluters. Climate change is doing a version of what we saw with the pandemic this year, instead of being a great equaliser in suffering, it is only deepening already existing inequalities.
This week’s guest is Joycelyn Longdon, the founder of Climate in Colour, which brings together conversations and information around the intersection of climate change and race, not only in the UK but around the world. Joycelyn does many things, which we get into during our chat, including currently studying Artificial Intelligence in relation to climate change at Cambridge.
You can find Joycelyn on Instagram here and Climate in Colour here
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