Why can’t we stop degrading our ecosystems? It’s not our failure to recycle, so much as a matter of systemic inertia. Continuously prioritizing corporate profit has led us to our current climate crisis, while also exacerbating racial and economic injustices. In this episode, we discuss the importance of centering anti-racist and feminist leadership to disrupt this status quo in the fight for our planet with Northeastern University’s Jennie Stephens.
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Chuck Collins, a program director at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-editor of inequality.org, shares the story of waking up to his own privilege and the racist systems that granted his family generational wealth while stripping it from others. Since that discovery, Chuck has dedicated his life to spreading awareness about wealth inequality and working toward a more equitable economic system. If we’re going to mend the damage done by the ‘extraction economy’, we must first tell the true story of how we got to where we are.
