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🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Potsay of the World. I'm Tommy Vittor. Ben Rhodes. Ben, we're in studio. |
0:14.9 | Yeah, this is really fun. Glad that this stretch of travel is over. Yeah, how was KL? How's |
0:20.6 | Kuala Lumpur? It was cool. I mean, we had, I mentioned we had like 200 young leaders from |
0:25.3 | Cross Asia Pacific region. And you know, I love feeling better about the world. Yeah, I mean, |
0:30.6 | these are like earnest kids working their butts off in civil society and a lot of people fighting |
0:36.0 | climate change. Actually, the last person I met with there was someone who's leading the efforts |
0:41.8 | on climate change in Micronesia. Okay. Oh, yeah. And like literally like hearing her talk about how |
0:48.2 | it's not a future scenario like the coast or being eroded. Part of what happens is the saltwater |
0:54.1 | kind of gets into the water supply. Like the fishing has to be pushed back. Like so people's lives |
0:59.3 | are already changing. Every person who lives in her community is already dealing with the effects |
1:04.0 | climate change. And they created none of the problem. And they're counting on the rest of us to |
1:10.4 | prevent their habitat from literally disappearing. Right? So, you know, there's a lot of mobilization |
1:16.6 | happening, but a lot of challenges. Yeah. Also, all the people we used to like call Obama a |
1:21.5 | loof or professorial or like not social with members of Congress. Get him in a room with 200 |
1:27.6 | kids who are activists. Yeah. And then he's like the happiest you'll ever see. He told me, yeah, |
1:31.4 | he said like this is stuff that makes him happiest. Right. And you go and you know, you see people, |
1:36.4 | you know, beginning to organize, being immobilized. And you know, that's the long game. Yeah, |
1:42.7 | right. But you know, we have to make sure that there's something for them to to deal with in 10 or |
1:47.0 | 20. That's right. Well, Obama was always good at making us remember the long, long game, especially |
1:51.6 | when it comes to social justice. So, we have a fantastic show today. We're going to start the show |
1:57.0 | with our guest today who is David Lamy. You guys have heard him on the show before. He's a member |
2:01.5 | of parliament from Tottenham. He's been in office since 2000. Remember the labor party. He's going |
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