Today on A Rude Awakening, environmental justice and disaster preparation go hand in hand. Attorney and council member for the National Justice Advisory Council, Ayako Nagano, discusses a series of upcoming town hall meetings to discuss yet another season of environmental disasters in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We then speak with Benjamin Preston, a senior researcher who addresses the devastating glacier activity in India and flooding in Morocco.

Plus a segment on rising sea-level in Senegal from Al Jazeera.

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Sink-holes are making their mark in Siberia, and scientists like Dr. Katey Walter Anthony, professor at the Water and Environmental research center in Fairbanks, Alaska is trying to get to the bottom of it. Anthony speaks to us about the impacts of climate change in the arctic region.

Investigative environmental journalist Steve Horne then joins us for a discussion on how California Democrats have turned their backs on environmental justice.

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On today’s episode, host Sabrina Jacobs speaks first with Jan Spencer, a suburban permaculturalist, who speaks on how people can get their hands dirty in their daily lives and also connect with Spencer online through various upcoming events.

We then turn towards northern California, as Jacobs connects with the executive director of Restore the Delta, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, on the latest efforts to restore and maintain the bay area’s amazing estuary and surrounding communities.

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Today on A Rude Awakening, we speak with two front-line activists, Will Falk and Max Wilbert, who are fighting to save Thacker Pass in Nevada, against the construction of the Silver Peak lithium mine near Winnemucca.

We then speak with, Akshat Rathi, a journalist at Bloomberg, about why large companies are not reporting on their environmental impact.

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On today’s show, host Sabrina Jacobs once against speaks with Austrian based freelance environmental journalist Bob Berwyn on the need for the implementation of the Green New Deal. We also continue our conversation with the Nature Conservancy’s Michelle Passero on their recently published Roadmap to Nature Based Climate Solutions.

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