Everyone has the right to a clean environment — but major disparities exist when it comes to who faces the consequences of pollution. Environmental justice leader Peggy Shepard points to the disproportionate impact that hazardous environmental conditions have on Black, brown and Indigenous communities and challenges us to build a truly equitable future that turns “sacrifice zones” — where community health is sacrificed for the sake of development — into “green zones” that redress the legacy of pollution and harmful policies.
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Thomas Voloshen
September 7, 2022 at 3:45 pm
What is a right? What is equitable?..fair and impartial. Vs. Making someone else pay for it…. how is that fair and impartial?
Krunoslav Stifter
September 7, 2022 at 3:46 pm
Oh great more watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) insanity from these commies. How apropos that this commie is wearing red dress, while the trained clapping seals in the audience are wearing face dippers. So much intelligence in this room. Its outstanding.
MysticAura
September 7, 2022 at 3:47 pm
Anyone serious about renewables or green energy would push for nuclear and hydro, as well as more research into carbon capture. If they aren’t looking at that, then their ‘green’ agenda is merely a cover to push things through people would otherwise not agree with. They’re also taking farmland from people and having the media label it as ‘protecting the land’.
Singularity Bound
September 7, 2022 at 3:48 pm
These people saying these words will lead to everything but just…
Thomas Voloshen
September 7, 2022 at 3:50 pm
Studies show….SHOW US THE STUDIES. A black family making 87,000 can move into almost any suburb they care. If they decide to live in a place that isn’t to their liking that’s THEIR CHOICE. It’s not for you to tell me that I have to change their mind or pay them more.
Thomas Voloshen
September 7, 2022 at 3:51 pm
So we shouldn’t have permits we should have zero pollution. I suppose you should wear a machine that collects your breath when you exhale.
MAGA MAN
September 7, 2022 at 3:53 pm
This is Globalist, Technocratic Fascism being sold with flowery feel good language to sAve tHe pLanET.
Allen
September 7, 2022 at 3:53 pm
All I hear is liberal propaganda
Thomas Voloshen
September 7, 2022 at 3:55 pm
Harlem is NOT industrial. 2.5% of its population is engaged in light manufacturing. Find yourself another bleeding heart cause please!
Thomas Voloshen
September 7, 2022 at 3:56 pm
My family a WHITE family grew up in a community predominantly white on the near west side of Cleveland immediately adjacent to the flats one of the most polluted places in the state.
Halimajoli
September 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Yes!!!!🙏🏽😌💓💓💓
Mike Pict
September 7, 2022 at 4:23 pm
Equitable and fair starvation?
Equitable and fair depopulation ?
Or Equitable and fair forced labor camps ?
I don’t think it’s fair that women can vote , they can’t work .
Conrad
September 7, 2022 at 4:25 pm
This propaganda is laughable
Lupe bustillos
September 7, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Climate change is a joke
Lupe bustillos
September 7, 2022 at 4:36 pm
God who created this earth is able to keep us from destroying His earth!!
AmuroR4y
September 7, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Fair and equitable is to get the Chinese and Indians on-board.
Parker DW
September 7, 2022 at 5:36 pm
And Americans especially, as one of the largest per capita contributors. And of course, as one of the largest economies, they consume a lot of the stuff produced by other countries, so wtv pollution is created to produce those goods is really on the American side as well.
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September 7, 2022 at 6:33 pm
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Scotty Yoch
September 7, 2022 at 6:52 pm
@Parker DW does per Capita cost matter, or does total contribution matter?
Lookingat Videos
September 7, 2022 at 5:01 pm
How to word salad with a salad of words all while still saying nothing.’
Mike Lowery
September 7, 2022 at 5:14 pm
So are you going to move the coal power plants, dumps and sewer treatment plants into the rich neighborhoods?
Infrastructure has to go somewhere. Rich people (probably including our presenter) can move whenever they want.
You can’t put these things nowhere. These are what causes most of these problems.
These types of people love to talk about these one off things like cancer alleys and of course anything that involves the State buying lots of expensive services and products from businesses they’ve “invested” in because politicians and their families and cronies make money indirectly from these transactions.
Rich people move away from pollution. This depresses land prices allowing poorer people to buy those properties.
Are you going to prevent poor people from buying cheap property? Are you going to make all real estate cost the same amount?
Sounds like a bunch of pandering bull crap to me. An unrealistic dream of central planning authoritarian aristocrats.
She will never live by the dump and she will never let it be built near her, but she will let someone else live near it. Her vision of equity is a lie even if she believes it.
Rainbowdash_cum_jar
September 8, 2022 at 9:09 am
Absolutely, couldn’t have said it better myself! She needs to get real!
Jan woolley
September 11, 2022 at 1:18 pm
you are missing the point – industry does not have to be polluting if their sites are built to avoid toxins etc from escaping. This might make their products more expensive but then everyone pays and not just those living in the near neighbourhood
Ramón González
September 7, 2022 at 5:25 pm
Ugh. Yeah, it’s always about race. Thanks Peggy, your shekels have been deposited in your account.
If you care about environmental problems go to China or India. Except you don’t have a lot of white people to blame there even when like 80% of the worst pollution comes from the East not the West.
george herouvis
September 7, 2022 at 6:06 pm
Africa/Asia is waiting for you…get to steppin’.
Jonathan Eby
September 7, 2022 at 6:12 pm
Sad to see so many uninformed comments. Did any of you even really listen to the video? She explained how environmental racism is a result of complicated history of redlining and bad policies. Is that really too hard to believe that the reason black communities were forced to live in highly polluted areas was because they were DENIED living in the healthier neighborhoods owned by white (racist) real-estate owners. Like, segregation was not that long ago people! Obviously, there have been good changes since then, but why are high polluting industries being permitted adjacent to poor (mostly black) neighborhoods at all?! Shouldn’t those people be given a say, shouldn’t they be compensated for the cost to their health? If there’s a way to avoid those polluting industries to being implemented at all and choose greener, healthier alternatives, why wouldn’t we take the better option? Y’all who are complaining about who’s gonna pay for it, why tf does that matter?! It’s the government’s fault for this being permitted in the first place, it’s the government who should have to pay for it (and yes, in turn, taxpayers). I swear, some of y’all only think about yourselves and your precious little capitalistic lifestyle, how about you dream a little?
CorrosionX4
September 7, 2022 at 6:13 pm
Climate change is a hoax
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September 7, 2022 at 6:29 pm
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Steve Cagle
September 7, 2022 at 7:41 pm
Is she on the Left?? I can’t tell.. LOL
mkhud50n
September 7, 2022 at 8:25 pm
“Equitable” 😂
Charles Dickens
September 7, 2022 at 9:21 pm
Wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Chris Knowles
September 7, 2022 at 9:24 pm
This is just ten minutes of Marxism
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Joe Johnson
September 7, 2022 at 10:37 pm
You mean black people making a decent income is too stupid to move out of a polluted area? Nope! Not buying it.
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September 7, 2022 at 10:50 pm
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David Mouton
September 7, 2022 at 11:00 pm
Nice talk, but I’d be nice to see a black person on TED who talks about something else besides race.
The Big Dawg
September 13, 2022 at 12:41 am
You could remove “on TED” and still be spot on.
Rome Ants
September 7, 2022 at 11:32 pm
Oh snap this is the environmental channel, I thought this was TED
Kongolox
September 8, 2022 at 12:14 am
Again, correlation doesnt mean causation.
/sigh
Joseph Nasamu
September 8, 2022 at 12:19 am
Stop with the race thing already! As I’ve always said, it’s the media and people like this presenter who keep promoting the stereotype that blacks live misrable lives when, as a matter of fact, there are many who live better lives than a lot of white people.
Whenever an issue comes up, no matter how much sense someone makes, I simply lose total interest when they try to make it a race thing. Just stop!
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Gym Floor
September 8, 2022 at 12:38 am
Starting off with race? Looks like I’m done with Ted talks since everything has gone so far left
Levi Efrauim
September 8, 2022 at 1:01 am
I don’t even have to watch this video to know where it’s going, particularly when the leftist buzzwords of “equitable and just climate future” are used in the title. I just saved myself some 11 minutes from listening to the presenter tell me that I’m a racist and need to pay more of my hard earned money to support some leftist cause.
Homer62001
September 8, 2022 at 5:48 am
Wow that was terrible
Bruce Barton
September 8, 2022 at 9:44 am
Why does the LEFT hate anything “GOOD”?
Ask Joe Biden & his FLUNKIES!
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September 8, 2022 at 10:28 am
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goldminor sanchez
September 9, 2022 at 12:35 am
What a bad joke.
DINA NOVIANI
September 9, 2022 at 1:31 am
Everyone has their own role in protecting and preserving planet earth, from the smallest things to the biggest things.
Maria Neighbor
September 9, 2022 at 4:50 pm
5 minutes in and she’s pissed me off. Pollution shouldn’t be happening anywhere, wether people live there or not, our entire planet is alive, teeming with little creatures a billion times more important and deserving of life than any human.
We humans are the ones completely killing the earth and species with our pollution, why is she only highlighting the negative affects it has on humans and acting like its okay to pollute where the animals live?