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#60: Rob Hopkins - Why Climate Action Needs Imagination

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Activism on Climate Change

I think we find that you know often people look at the just the catastrophic examples of doing bold action on climate change really badly like in France. I went to an amazing city in France called Grand Saint which is near Dunkirk in the north west of France they had a mayor who took a completely different approach and he said everything that we do to address the climate emergency has to start first by being of service to the poor. If we take an approach like that where the benefits of the stuff we do for climate change serves the majority of people then I think we get much much less kind of kickback. Those are not the people who are who are to blame for this mess it's the wealthiest

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