Women Leaders Speak Out To Change The Narrative On Health And Climate

As part of a Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network online training, women climate leaders Susan E. Pacheco M.D of the University of Texas; Pandora Thomas of EarthSeed Consulting LLC and the Black Permaculture Network; Angela Monti Fox of The Mothers Project; and Hannah Vogel with Climate Nexus shared experiences and calls to action as women working on the intersection of climate change and human health impacts. Dr. Pacheco discusses children as the “silent” climate change victims and details threats to maternal and children’s health from air and water pollution, as well as mental and emotional stress. Pandora Thomas discusses the connection between environmental racism, health impacts, climate vulnerability, economic insecurity crime and violence – and provides suggestions of strategies for engaging diverse communities in their own healing and liberation. Angela Monti Fox explores the expansion of fracking and natural gas exploitation in New York and Pennsylvania, and movements to expose and combat dangerous impacts. Hannah Vogel speaks on climate change as the largest human health challenge of the century, dependent on fundamental shifts in our energy production and consumption systems.