In this honest and transparent episode, Jess is joined by powerhouse and climate justice activist Mikaela Loach.
Mikaela is a climate justice activist, bestselling author of It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World (April 2023), co-host of The YIKES Podcast, writer and 4th year medical student based in the United Kingdom. In 2020, Forbes, Global Citizen and BBC Woman's Hour named Mikaela as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement. In 2021, she was one of three claimants on the \"Paid To Pollute\" case who took the UK government to court over the huge public payments they give to fossil fuel companies every year. Her work focuses on the intersections of the climate crisis with oppressive systems and making the climate movement a more accessible space.
In this episode Jess and Mikaela explore what climate justice actually means, how it seeks to tackle the root causes of the climate crisis, how we are all needed and have something to bring to the work and what role our own honesty and vulnerability plays on the journey,
Mikaela defines what healthy looks to her, the importance of choosing honesty over scarcity and “not pretending to know it all”!
Links:
Climate Strike, Mikaela Loach on Capitalism, Colonialism & Imperialism Fuel Climate Crisis
Do better - Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy - Rachel Ricketts
Climate activist groups in your area:
https://groups.friendsoftheearth.uk/near-you/local-authority
https://netpol.org/2022/04/06/find-your-local-copwatch-group/
Mikaela on Social Media:
Instagram: @mikaelaloach
Twitter: @mikaelaloach
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