Loss Is on the Calendar in Nigeria

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

From our pals over at Inherited, in today’s episode, Mo Isu looks at one of the reasons climate activists all over the world are protesting: they're already facing the impacts of climate change. Here, Isu traces the cycle of loss and rebuilding in the rural Niger Delta region of Nigeria as the country weathers extreme seasonal flooding. After meeting a flood survivor in his hometown of Lagos, Mo travels twelve hours to Lokoja – the town where Nigeria’s largest rivers converge – to explore how directly impacted flood survivors endure the region’s relentless cycle of damage and repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Drilled I'm Amy Westervalt. One thing we want to be mindful of as we make
0:16.8	our way through this season about protest and the criminalization of it and all of the
0:22.0	conversations swirling around both of those things is that one of the reasons that so
0:27.5	many people and companies and think tanks and other organizations have worked really hard to
0:34.4	generate so much conversation about protest tactics and whose radical and who isn't is to
0:40.8	distract from what's actually going on when it comes to climate change. Today we're bringing
0:47.5	you an episode from our sister podcast inherited that digs into what is actually happening on the
0:55.1	ground in a place that's being deeply impacted by climate change and also happens to be the
1:00.8	largest oil producer on the continent of Africa, Nigeria. This episode is called loss is on the
1:08.3	calendar and in it storyteller Moe Su traces the repetitive cycle of loss and rebuilding in the
1:15.8	rural Niger Delta region of Nigeria as the country weather's extreme seasonal flooding. After meeting a
1:23.3	flood survivor in his hometown of Lagos, Moe travels 12 hours to Locoja, the town where Nigeria's
1:30.4	largest rivers converge to explore how directly impacted flood survivors endure the region's
1:36.9	relentless cycle of damage and repair. We'll have an episode coming in the next few months about
1:43.5	what climate protest looks like in Nigeria and the history of climate protest there over the past few
1:50.4	decades, especially as we head into an international climate summit where conversations are very much
1:56.4	swirling around whether fossil fuel development is the answer to all of Africa's problems or not.
2:04.1	It's important to remember that yes, energy poverty is a problem and also that the continent of
2:11.5	Africa is likely to experience some of the worst impacts of climate change and that poor people
2:17.4	there will be impacted hardest. A solution that ignores either of those things is no solution.
2:24.8	With that, enjoy this story from Moe Su in Nigeria.
2:36.2	If you are banking with most banks, they are loaning out your deposits to fund fossil fuel
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