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Rising Tides and Coastal Resilience with Janelle Kellman
Inevitable
Exploring Polar Regions, Connecting Ocean Athletes, and Climate Leadership
This chapter covers a polar explorer's remarkable achievements, the need for connecting ocean athletes, and the speaker's announcement of running for Lieutenant Governor of California with a focus on climate-related responsibilities and visionary leadership.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, we had a polar explorer, Will Stieger on the show who led one of the first actually the first, I think, person to have taken a dog sled trip across both the North Pole and the South Pole. And he was I think only the fourth human in history to have visited both at the time he did it. And he, you know, recounted like things he's seen changing with his own eyes in a way that is frankly terrifying. Good episode also in the archives for folks to go listen to feels like when it comes to the ocean, there should be an organization. If there is one folks, you know, weigh in on Twitter or LinkedIn or wherever you're hearing the episode and let us know what it might be that connects ocean athletes. I
Speaker 1
think it exists. Yeah, it must exist.
Speaker 2
So the last thing I want to ask you about is, you know, we've talked about the work you do locally, we've talked about how you engage locally at the international level. But it sounds like maybe you have your sights set on a different level of government. Maybe there's something there you want to share.
Speaker 1
Oh, I appreciate that opportunity. We are a couple weeks away from officially announcing that I'm going to be running for Lieutenant Governor of the state of California. And the reason I'm running for that position is because it's a really exciting climate role. Here's how people don't talk about it enough. But I was sharing with you earlier that the Lieutenant Governor in California alternates is the chair of the state lands commission. And that's the entity that handles our oil and gas leases as well as a lot of our tightlands, which is right along the bay or along with waterfront serves on the ocean protection council serves on the California coastal commission and also is actively involved as a voting member of the regions and higher education and leads international trade delegations. And so the work that I've been doing literally again, the last 25 plus years traveling around the world talking about subnational climate diplomacy, doing the real work on the ground in my community. And knowing that the state of California is obviously made up of cities just like mine, it seemed like a logical way to take everything that I had learned and really try to help more people in scale and also take my deep environmental background with a recognition that we need visionary leadership that recognizes that if you want more jobs and you want more affordable housing and you want to ensure that there's equity and economic resilience, you have to understand what's happening with climate, you have to understand it, you got to understand the nuances around it and why
Speaker 2
it matters.
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