Ice-Breaker

Hey guys! In this episode we discuss the impacts of Climate Change on Minority Groups, highlighting the Cancer Capital, Mossville, Louisiana. This episode talks about what we’ve already seen, and why minority groups, especially Black communities, are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change and how it affects their health. We also discuss a variety of topics about environmental racism, including the causes & patterns of environmental injustice, poverty, global effects, the history of environmental policy in America, redlining, the pandemic, and how we can help. Also check out https://icebreakerpodcast.carrd.co/, and follow Ice-breaker on Instagram. Transcripts & Sources are going to be up by the 12th!

Hey guys! Today's episode is normally shorter than I'm hoping future ones will be, but it focuses on a few basic ideas to set an understanding of how climate change affects us and what the difference is between climate change and global warming. Focusing on various statistics, descriptions, and definitions, we come to an overall understanding of why we need to act on climate change now and the enormity of the effects that we have already seen, emphasizing the Californian and Australian wildfires in the 2019-2020 season. We look to various sources to understand what all climate change encompasses and where global warming fits in.

Anya Bansal, the host, speaks about the goals of this podcast and sets the stage for what this podcast and future episodes may look like. Created specifically to combat inaction and to encourage better awareness and learning, this podcast can be used as a tool to remind us about the dangerous effects of climate change.  The goal: to help others keep in mind the realistic effects and ways it indirectly affects many parts of our society, to further explain every angle of this issue, bringing forth light to topics shrouded in the darkness of inaction and lack of widespread communication. Featuring interviews from other sources and knowledgeable people, as well as case studies and research, I promise to provide dependable and trustworthy information to try to explain and address concerns as the best of my ability. We need to move the global conversation forward, so that instead of focusing solely on the problems, we can also learn about the implementation of possible solutions and what these solutions will mean for our future in a broader perspective.