Climate justice cannot happen without racial justice, says Member of Parliament for Tottenham and Foreign Shadow Secretary David Lammy on this week’s Climate Quickie. We’re revisiting Lammy’s episode where he explains why it’s vital for us to connect the dots between climate and racial justice, referring back to industrialisation’s exploitative past, and policies today which see black and brown people bearing the brunt of rising sea-levels, hotter temperatures and polluted air in cities.
Enjoyed this quickie? Listen to our full-length chat with Lammy on the Climate Curious podcast: https://tedxlondon.com/podcast/climate-curious-why-climate-justice-cant-happen-without-racial-justice/
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Maryam is the Director and Curator of TEDxLondonWomen and TEDxLondon, co-host of ‘Climate Curious’ podcast and has been working on TEDx events since 2011. The world is full of fascinating ideas, knowledge and theories, but they are too often complex, abstract or hidden away. Maryam wants to give these ideas the chance to change the world. Through her company, X Equals, she works with organisations and individuals to give life to their ideas through storytelling, pitch coaching and events design and curation. Maryam is also a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford.
