Kylie Flanagan on ‘Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Larry is joined by environmental strategist, educator, and author Kylie Flanagan to discuss her book ‘Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change’ publishing on August 1st. They begin their conversation by talking about the uniquely personal method Kylie utilized to convey the impact of the global climate crisis in her book and breaking down the definition of “climate resilience”. Next, they dive deep into the obstacles surrounding the global warming dialog, the tangible metrics that can be referenced by folks to tamper their existential anxieties about the planet, and the ways to connect to the burgeoning youth activist movement (14:11). After the break, Larry asks Kylie if the negative effects of climate change can be reversed, how she got involved in environmental justice, and what type of responses she’s already received from the book (24:41). They end the pod by shining a light on how simple action items and powerful storytelling can inspire everyday people to consider climate activism (31:07). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Kylie Flanagan Associate Producer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	An Instagram post gets an unexpected boost. A TikTok catches in the algorithm.
0:05.0	Sometimes that's all it takes to launch someone into internet fame.
0:09.0	But then what?
0:11.0	This blew up is a new podcast documentary that reveals how social media
0:15.0	start and is made. It's a different kind of fame. That's not always as glamorous as it looks.
0:20.0	From Spotify and the Ring or Podcast Network, I'm Alyssa Bereznek.
0:24.0	You can listen to this blew up on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	All right. Welcome back everybody. You know, the world is literally on fire right now. It is on fire.
0:44.0	I think this is the hottest summer in like, I'm just going to say 200,000 years.
0:50.0	No, that's not accurate. That's not accurate.
0:53.0	But man, I think since the time they've been recording these things,
0:56.0	it really has good and getting hot on hire. I believe it is two degrees hotter in the last 120 years.
1:02.0	I believe that is fact two degrees. That's a lot.
1:06.0	People talk about climate in a lot of different ways, but we have a real interesting point of view here on the show.
1:11.0	We want to share with you the subject is climate resilience is the name of the book, how we keep each other safe.
1:17.0	Care for our communities and fight back against climate change and the authors.
1:22.0	Kylie Flanagan, Kylie, welcome to black on the air.
1:25.0	Thank you so much, Larry. It's such a pleasure to be here with you today.
1:28.0	It's so nice to have you with such an interesting approach to climate change and the effects of it and everything.
1:35.0	You know, we generally try to approach it from just a strict science point of view trying to prove this or prove that.
1:41.0	Well, this is true. No, this is true. Well, this many scientists say that. Well, this many scientists say that.
1:45.0	Like that always seems to be the echo chamber that we're in, but it seems like you're approaching it from kind of a,
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