It was a great talk, mostly about her book #ItsNotThatRadical https://bookbag.shop/products/its-not-that-radical? Some points that particularly resonated with me in no particular order:
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She said that rather than just focussing on what we're against we need to be talking about the better world that we want to build, both in terms of sustainability and social justice, and although the voices that shout loudest may give us the idea that most people are opposed to this in reality most people are for a better world, they just don't know how to go about making change or don't believe they have the power to.
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And how we need to recognise that the same system of extractivism and exploitation that has caused the #ClimateCrisis is also what causes the oppression, marginalisation and impoverishment of people and communities and we can't tackle one without tackling the other. She was justifiably scathing about environmental movements that refuse to engage with the social justice aspect of the struggle for a better world and believe it "dilutes the message".
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I wrote a bit about #MikaelaLoach's talk on organising for #EnvironmentalJustice last night here
Last night my partner and I went to see Mikaela Loach, climate justice organiser and author of “It’s Not That Radical” in conversation with Kalkidan Legesse at Bookbag, ExeterR…
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