No Better Time for Climate Reparations
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English - January 24, 2021 08:56 - 57 minutes - ★★★★★ - 350 ratingsNews Commentary News Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but has re-emerged in the past year or two. Environmental activist, organizer, lawyer, and all-around climate expert Tamara Toles O'Laughlin joins us to talk about where this idea came from, why it disappeared, and why it's back...hopefully to stay.
Further reading:
Maxine Burkett's original paper on climate reparations: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539726
"Climate Rage," by Naomi Klein in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-rage-193377/
"No Money Down," by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky in Earth Island Journal https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/no_money_down/
Four "The Case for Reparations" articles from recent history:
Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/10/case-for-climate-reparations-crisis-migration-refugees-inequality/
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/
Sierra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/feature/the-case-for-climate-reparations
Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/
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The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but has re-emerged in the past year or two. Environmental activist, organizer, lawyer, and all-around climate expert Tamara Toles O'Laughlin joins us to talk about where this idea came from, why it disappeared, and why it's back...hopefully to stay.
Further reading:
Maxine Burkett's original paper on climate reparations: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539726
"Climate Rage," by Naomi Klein in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-rage-193377/
"No Money Down," by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky in Earth Island Journal https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/no_money_down/
Four "The Case for Reparations" articles from recent history:
Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/10/case-for-climate-reparations-crisis-migration-refugees-inequality/
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/
Sierra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/feature/the-case-for-climate-reparations
Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/
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