103. Building a Movement to Fight a System with Jerome Foster II

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the back of the IEA report last week that shook the oil and gas industry, the G7 this week pledged not only to limit global warming to 1.5C, but to stop all new financing for overseas coal projects by the end of this year! An absolute breakthrough for the climate. We get into the geopolitics behind the G7 announcement and what it’s going to take to close the remaining 20+ GtCO2 gap left even after China and the US NDCs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And our guest this week is championing and informing the policy behind climate and racial justice in the United States and beyond. After striking every Friday for 58 weeks in a row outside of the White House as part of the ‘School Strike for Climate’ movement, On March 29</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">2021, Jerome Foster II was appointed the youngest ever member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. We talk with him about how young people are experiencing and meeting the massive social and political changes happening, and hear more about his vision for bringing about justice through US climate policy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stick around to the end of the episode for a live performance of “Justice” from Alfred Nomad!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christiana + Tom’s book</span> <a href= "https://globaloptimism.com/the-future-we-choose/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">‘The Future We Choose’</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is available now!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subscribe to our Climate Action Newsletter:</span> <a href= "https://www.getrevue.co/profile/globaloptimism/issues/signals-admist-the-noise-543257"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Signals Amidst The Noise</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><