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7Th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference Program: Penny's 7th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference Program: Penny’s notes, compiled. Nov. 17, 2019. These are just my notes and thoughts. This is by no means authoritative or exhaustive. And I totally apologize if I accidentally misrepresent or omitted anyone. I didn’t attend the last day (overwhelmed). Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:15 – 7:30 pm , Moderator: Dr. Beverly Wright DSCEJ, Inc COMMUNITY FORUM: THE INTERSECTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE, REPARATIONS AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL AS A CLIMATE SOLUTION Panelists Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, Civil Rights Attorney and Reparations Activist. Described herself as a “Reparationist.” Reparations are not for compensation of work: it’s for crimes against humanity. Current disparities are the legacy of slavery. Discussed an article: “Should the Green New Deal include reparations?” There is an unbroken chain of white supremacy and white privilege which devalues black people. White supremacy is not (necessarily) personal; it’s the system. Japanese people studying reparations gave her boxes of documents. 5 injury areas (I didn’t get all 5): includes health. Reparations are owed BY the corporations which benefited from slavery. Similar to the opioid manufacturers and tobacco companies. Banks made $ from environmental injustice. Universities (selling slaves). USDA racist policies towards black farmers. Insurance companies made $$ by insuring slaves for owners. Corporations: disrespects all people of color (not same as blacks). HR40,(reparations bill in House) has a good chance of passing –now introduced into senate by Corey Booker. Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Policy Lead for Green new Deal. Policy director of New Consensus –RHODES scholar. Yale magna cum laude. She was surprised that other Rhodes scholars didn’t have to struggle as hard as she did. (=white privilege). She started in Detroit, where only one quarter original population remains due to white flight. = no tax base. The city sold its assets = Disaster capitalism. Michigan has 5 of the 20 poorest big cities in the country. She was policy analyst for Detroit Dep. Health. Campaign to get rid of incinerator in the middle of the city. Medium income is 22K. National black average median income is 43K. Lots of asthma. Water shutoffs, but poor drainage = increased GI infections. City was forced into bad contracts. SW Detroit has Oil refinery. Yet, new bridge planned. She says, if we made it, we can unmake. Racism is by design, we can undesign it. Also ? works with PAC Justice Democrats. Green New Deal has ?4 parts: 1. Climate, 2. Income inequality 3. Equity. 4. No sacrifice for progress. “The circle of solutions widens, but the writing becomes illegible.” Her goal: political viability with new policy. “Get the chains off your brain.” Unlink consumerism from prosperity. Buyouts are often not fair. Monique: buyouts work better if the whole community involved. We will need a climate resettlement federal authority. Breaking up public housing breaks up communities. Comment/question: sometimes the government solution is worse than the problem. World Bank, World Trade Organization still on unlimited growth model, even though most economists accept climate change. Thursday, November 14, 2019 Keynote: Dr. Beverly Wright, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice SETTING THE STAGE: BUILDING A GRASSROOTS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES. She was a starter of EJ movement. Gave her background (I missed some of this) Grambling. MA and Phd from SUNY Buffalo. 18 years she worked on getting data about Cancer Alley. Then she founded DSCEJ ~20 years ago. DSCEJ is one of the oldest orgs fighting. Now climate change has focused attention on it. Got grants. Now expanding to other states. ?she invented “Commun-iversity model” combining community activists with University researchers. (Read her web site, numerous prestigious awards, published numerous books.) Still 85 million tons of emissions/year from Cancer Alley. Greater than all of Texas’ emissions. REMOTE PLENARY: CLIMATE CHANGE, WHERE ARE WE NOW? THE STATE OF CLIMATE SCIENCE Dr. Astrid Caldas, Union of Concerned Scientists. Science into Action. ~ 500,000 members. Important documents: 1. IPCC. Now: Warning, corals, floods, fires. By 2030-2050 Predicted 1.5 degree warming. Even now there is a chance of stopping it. Every half degree affects millions. (her blog from UCS.) 2. 4th national Climate Assessment. Climate is changing faster than expected. We need 40-60% decline by 2030. Net zero by 2050. Ways to remove carbon needed. (?) We need systemic and personal changes. Equity: Heat is increased more in the South = more Black and Latinx people affected disproportionately. 3.There is a congressional Fact sheet for every congressional district. (? not sure if there is a different one.) PANEL: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES ON EQUITABLE CARBON PRICING SOLUTIONS CLIMATE EQUITY PROJECT NEW ORLEANS CLIMATE ACTION EQUITY REPORT. Monique Harden, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Inc. 2015: Paris conference. Mitch Landrieu went. 10 HBCU students went. Since Trump pulled out, mayors need to step up. Need to commit to 50% reduction by 2030. Climate Action Plan (? Mitch’s?) areas: 1. Energy (Nola is 3.6 tons GHG emissions: energy is ½ of that.) 2 waste/decomposition 3. Transportation. 4. Culture to support workforce and small businesses. DSCEJ research: there are two New Orleans: one clean, one not. Cantrell and GNOF, Climate Equity Plan. Used council districts and neighborhood associations. Advisory Group $4K grand to each worker. 5 month process. Findings include: New Orleans has the 2nd highest energy burden in the country. Nationally, people spend average 5% income on energy. Nola: 18%. Only Memphis higher with 25%. Report is called: “Taking steps together.” Cecilia Martinez, Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) (Minneapolis) The atmosphere can only take so much carbon, called the carbon store. Historically, humans have used up 2.7 trillion tons of the carbon store. A large part of that was used up in 2009-2107. A small part remains. We got here not by accident. Govt and corporate decisions. These are the same decisions that led to inequity. Examples: Red-lining. White flight led to long commutes (= increased GHG emissions). Trees clear cut (before Europeans came, a squirrel could cross the country without touching the ground.) justclimate.org (?) they are working for an equitable and just national climate platform. They are a lobby. 2 weeks ago EJ and environmental groups met w congressional committees. To change how they do business. Ernestine (Tina) Johnson, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Inc. (She works in Norway) BUILDING COMMUNITY PLATFORMS TO ADVANCE EQUITABLE CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS ?She sponsors monthly talks ?based on the Paris agreement. ? She works on DSCEJ on carbon pricing. Equity is not baked into carbon pricing. Carbon pricing did not pass the first time. There is no national policy on EJ. Oakland has some legislation. Carmen Reed, Texas Southern University Department of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy ACCESS TO SAFETY: THE SOCIOECONOMICS AND CATASTROPHIC WEATHER EVENTS Evacuation Hypothesis: if income <$22k, vulnerable during evacuation. There are 248 million cars in the US, (=0.77 cars/person), yet many poor people don’t have cars. US poverty threshold = $17K/person. Houston: 10-17% people in poverty in 39 census tracts. Double the national Rate. They cannot evacuate. When trying to evacuate, information is confusing: the city gives “route” to get to “centers”. The routes are highways, so useless without a car. Folks can’t get to centers. Houston has 4 Evacuation zones. Dr. Reed’s plan: called “Amber Alert.” People on assisted housing or SNAP get transportation assistance. Julian Gordon, (this talk had a lot of meteorology that I did not understand.) North Carolina A & T State University (Aggie school). ANALYSIS OF HURRICANE IRMA (2017) BEFORE 1900 AND AFTER 2100. He is researching tropical cyclones. Warm water in tropics. Heat rises. Coriolis makes it turn to the right (in the northern hemisphere. ? less in southern hemisphere because wind shear? At mid-latitudes, it’s called Nor-easter but it’s still cyclical because of the temperature differential. Hurricane Sandy called “post-tropical.” Cost $68.7 billion. 285 died. Cat. 3. Factors that made Sandy worse than previous storms: 1. Warming = more water in air = more precipitation. 2. Anti-cyclone? 3. Baroclinic (Wikipedia= density depends on both temperature and pressure.) Modeling: why did Sandy go North? If conditions would have been like in 1900s, it would have been more southerly. NCAR: predicting more storms, wetter, slower. With evaporation, soil will be dryer. Laura Grier, Master’s. University of Michigan School of Environment and Sustainability. NOTE: UM has School of Environment and Sustainability. (SEAS) Seems to be one of the best schools for EJ in the nation(although several other important ones represented at this conference)(this one is NOT an HBCU). Other authors = Delia Mayor (she was at the conference) Paul Mohai (he spoke later, he is one of the icons) ASSESSING THE STATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN . Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition. Her project: “What is the state of EJ in Michigan?” She gave an EJ Timeline: NC 1982, 1987. 2015. EJ screen. Tool. Interviews. Products of the study: 1. Word cloud. Conclusion: “People” not in word cloud, people excluded from process. (?) 2. Summarized EJ wins. 3. Community vulnerabilities. Hopelessness. 4. Tools. Found PTSD. Multiple risks. “intersectional” She read some moving quotes. Term: “Social Creativity.” = people using creativity to solve EJ problems. Brett Zeuner, University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability ASSESSING THE STATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN WITH A STATE-SPECIFIC SCREENING TOOL. EPA has been working on this for 30 years, still no national policy. 2013 “framework.” He used an “EJ Score.” Here’s a ref (Senior author is Sacoby Jacobs, who was also at the conference) to a publication showing how the score was developed and how to calculate. Cross section of socio-economic, vulnerabilities, chemical risks.
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