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One of our conversations is with Rachel Mander, a young climate activist helping to organize a 1,000-mile climate walk through Great Britain to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
A stop along the way for participants in the Young Christian Climate Network’s 1000-mile walk to Glasgow, Scotland.
As a veteran of five climate hikes, I can vouch that long walks and marches absolutely make a difference for participants and people reached along the way. One excellent example is this short film by Ralph King, Crossing the Divide, about the 2017 Climate Justice Unity March. Another is my book from the Great March for Climate Action, Marcher, Walker, Pilgrim, which is loaded with stories of climate interactions along our 3,100-mile route.
Rachel is with the Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN). They are walking to Glasgow because the importance of the COP26 summit cannot be overstated. As the world’s most prominent climate scientists laid out recently, we have come to the do-or-die moment. A full-fledged transformation of how we live on planet Earth must happen NOW!
What these young people are doing is important and inspiring. Hopefully, world leaders preparing to gather at Glasgow are paying attention. Nations need to agree to a climate strategy that far outpaces the limited outcomes of the COP21 climate summit in Paris in 2015.
Josh Mandelbaum
I hope you’ll follow along with these young people’s effort and support them however you can. You can keep abreast of their journey and support their work on the YCCN website, Facebook page, and on Twitter.
Also on this week’s program, I talk with Josh Mandelbaum, a member of the Des Moines City Council, who is running for re-election. Then Drake professor David Courard-Hauri and I try to sort out why the climate emergency isn’t everyone’s top priority.
Mark Rogers — host of the podcast Taking Down the Monster — joins me next to discuss the role of government. While Mark and I agree on some issues, we have a notably different view on whether the federal government needs reform or an all-out “take down.”
Jeffrey Weiss is one of the most knowledgable people I know when it comes to foreign policy. He joins me to dig into the terrible mess in Afghanistan. To wrap up the program, Kathy Byrnes and I discuss food security, and why local initiatives are potentially more impactful than state or federal programs.
Below, you’ll see time stamps for the various segments of this week’s program. I’m grateful for all you do in your own work for a better world, and for your support of this platform. Thank you! — Ed Fallon
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(02:02) Josh Mandelbaum, Des Moines City Council Member;
(12:49) Why isn’t climate everyone’s top priority, with David Courard-Hauri;
(26:34) Some see the federal government as “the monster,” with Mark Rogers;
(40:22) Walking to the COP26 Climate Summit, with Rachel Mander;
(53:20) Sorting out the mess in Afghanistan, with Jeffrey Weiss;
(1:06:40) Food security is best driven by local governments, with Kathy Byrnes.
Here’s our interview with Josh Mandelbaum.
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