Why Reconsidering Reparations Is Core To Climate Justice (w/ Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò discusses the connection between climate justice and reparations, emphasizing the need for systemic change and knowledge sharing.

Become a paid subscriber to our newsletter/podcast, The Climate Weekly , to help support this show! It's fun. All the cool kids are doing it! -------------------- "The goal I set out in the book, this planet-sized system reconstruction of the world in the direction of justice, that's a big goal." This week, we're joined by In this conversation, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Elite Capture and was a contributor to Greta Thunberg's The Climate Book. A new version of his book Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism is out now and he joins to discuss the interconnectedness of climate justice and reparations. We talk about the importance of an ancestor's perspective in understanding our responsibilities towards future generations and how he integrates that into his work. We examine some of the recent progress in integrating justice into the climate movement and what setbacks have occured in the process. Táíwò explains what a constructive view of…

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Host: The Climate Pod

Guest: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Topics covered

• climate justice
• reparations
• systemic change
• inequality
• knowledge sharing

Keywords

• climate justice
• reparations
• systemic change
• inequality
• ancestor's perspective

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Georgetown University

Books & works: Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism, Elite Capture, The Climate Book

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