The Inequity Of Climate Change

It's low-income communities of color that are already feeling the biggest impacts. And so we don't all feel climate change the same way. We don't all feel the effects of air pollution the same way. And we need to double down, because any solution that we have that doesn't have equity as its core will fail.

Well, I mean, you're right, Jared. And I think that one of the glaring examples of this is the the problem of climate refugees, that the developed world is producing most of the greenhouse gases. I think we're 5% of the population in America, we produce 25% of the greenhouse gases. And the populations that are being most affected are the low and middle income countries, even though they're not the ones producing the problem, they're the ones at the short end of the stick with increasing famine and droughts. and food insecurity that are driving climate refugees, which the UN estimates maybe 200 million people. Look at the instability just in Syria, which was a combination of climate and food and also war. One million Syrian refugees destabilized Europe. Imagine 200 million trying to find a place to go. We can't live in our little bubble anymore. We have to understand we're part of a global ecosystem of humanity and that the environment and climate don't have national borders on them.