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Rewilding Ep. 2 - Fighting Environmental Racism 101


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Dr. Ingrid Waldron is a professor at McMaster University whose research and advocacy focus on environmental racism, climate justice, mental illness, and the structural and environmental determinants of health disparities in Black, Indigenous, immigrant and refugee communities. She is the author of There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities, and co-produced the 2019 Netflix documentary of the same name.

In this episode, Ingrid and Daniel discuss:

  • Preventing burnout while campaigning for environmental change
  • Environmental racism, what it is and how it works
  • Stories of communities that fought back (and eventually won) against industrial pollution in their communities
  • And much more.

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