WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.520 Hey, this is Climate to Action, a California 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:05.219 State University San Marcos student podcast. 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:09.099 We're here to amplify voices and empower solutions 00:00:09.099 --> 00:00:12.519 in the fight against climate change and to address 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:15.980 climate justice for all living things. We are 00:00:15.980 --> 00:00:18.440 committed to incorporating discussions on Indigenous 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.320 knowledge in addressing the climate crisis and 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:23.760 to providing a call to action in every episode. 00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:27.059 My name is Saturn Salama. I'm the current team 00:00:27.059 --> 00:00:28.879 manager of Climate to Action. It's wonderful 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:30.769 to be here. back and I'm excited to share more 00:00:30.769 --> 00:00:33.149 discussions that will make you think about your 00:00:33.149 --> 00:00:37.210 world, climate action, and climate justice. First, 00:00:37.369 --> 00:00:39.289 we'd like to acknowledge that our recording studio 00:00:39.289 --> 00:00:42.310 is located on the traditional territory of the 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:46.450 Lusenyo -Piokowichan people. CSUSM and its surrounding 00:00:46.450 --> 00:00:49.409 area are still home to the six federally recognized 00:00:49.409 --> 00:00:53.909 bands of the La Jolla, Paula, Palma, Pechanga, 00:00:54.149 --> 00:00:57.590 Rincon, and Ceboba Lusenyo -Piokowichan people. 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.619 It is also important to acknowledge that this 00:01:00.619 --> 00:01:03.520 land remains the shared space among the Kupenyo, 00:01:03.659 --> 00:01:08.219 Kumeyaay, and Ipai peoples. Today we have a special 00:01:08.219 --> 00:01:11.120 episode. This is an excerpt taken from episode 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.680 6 with reporter Corey Suzuki of KPBS and Mackenzie 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.760 Elmer from Voice of San Diego. In episode 6, 00:01:18.859 --> 00:01:21.640 we covered a number of topics from the history 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.760 of the climate crisis in reporting to exciting 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:28.870 solutions for climate change to the future. This 00:01:28.870 --> 00:01:31.510 bonus episode will focus on the upcoming administration 00:01:31.510 --> 00:01:35.269 and climate change. So, without further ado, 00:01:35.430 --> 00:01:41.049 let's hear what these reporters had to say. Obviously, 00:01:41.090 --> 00:01:43.930 in January, we will have a new administration, 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:46.790 and we're wondering how this will impact climate 00:01:46.790 --> 00:01:49.150 news. And we're sure you're aware that during 00:01:49.150 --> 00:01:51.590 the first Trump administration, climate data 00:01:51.590 --> 00:01:53.730 was buried and removed from federal websites. 00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:56.370 What does the future of climate crisis reporting 00:01:56.370 --> 00:01:59.939 look like to you? I don't know. We've been through 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:01.780 one Trump administration. I'm not really worrying 00:02:01.780 --> 00:02:05.879 myself about it. I'm sure we'll see. He's already 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.639 announced he's going to try to dismantle key 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:12.000 climate change tracking organizations like the 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.199 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.479 for instance, which produces a lot of climate 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.120 data. We did see his administration pull terms 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.500 like climate change from key websites like the 00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:26.120 EPA. But already in talking to some of these... 00:02:26.409 --> 00:02:30.990 some of my sources in the fed like at epa people 00:02:30.990 --> 00:02:34.530 are preparing um people in those agencies are 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:38.030 preparing to just sort of alter their phraseology 00:02:38.030 --> 00:02:41.710 their terminology and still like get out the 00:02:41.710 --> 00:02:46.449 truth without maybe saying some buzzwords which 00:02:46.449 --> 00:02:48.750 i guess climate change becomes under the trump 00:02:48.750 --> 00:02:51.969 administration um and even if they pull i mean 00:02:51.969 --> 00:02:54.469 they may pull data from a federal website which 00:02:54.469 --> 00:02:59.659 is awful But there are many, many other sources 00:02:59.659 --> 00:03:04.060 out there, institutions, universities, scientists, 00:03:04.580 --> 00:03:09.300 private companies like that can provide and continue 00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:12.340 to update the public on where we're at with the 00:03:12.340 --> 00:03:14.900 climate crisis. So to me, it's just going to 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:18.479 make it a little bit more difficult. And it will 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:22.139 probably see a lot more rhetoric we'll have to 00:03:22.139 --> 00:03:26.500 combat, but doesn't really. It's just annoying, 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.120 really, more than anything, to me. I kind of 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.340 view the change, but I don't know, maybe Corey 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:35.219 feels differently. I don't know. I mean, I feel 00:03:35.219 --> 00:03:39.099 like, Mackenzie, you would... have a much better 00:03:39.099 --> 00:03:41.259 sense of what's actually happening within the 00:03:41.259 --> 00:03:43.060 federal government. I don't, I mean, I don't, 00:03:43.060 --> 00:03:47.199 on the sort of federal level, I don't cover very 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.240 much. I'm sort of, my beat is very locally focused 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.300 in both regions. So that's a little bit out of 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:58.680 my area of experience. But I do, I mean, I guess 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.699 I like, I am certainly. um really really worried 00:04:02.699 --> 00:04:06.060 about things like um you know the um national 00:04:06.060 --> 00:04:09.020 oceanic and atmospheric administration um potentially 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:11.340 being dissolved um the national weather service 00:04:11.340 --> 00:04:15.240 um being dismantled or changed into some kind 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.560 of other organization that puts its services 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.860 behind a paywall um i i think that there there's 00:04:20.860 --> 00:04:24.819 a lot to um to really be worried about and um 00:04:24.819 --> 00:04:28.720 i I think it's too early to say what things are 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.079 really going to look like, because, you know, 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.300 it's I think it's hard to know. There's a lot 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:35.199 of industry pressure on President -elect Trump, 00:04:35.259 --> 00:04:39.240 you know, for example, to continue things like 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.779 some of the Biden administrations. move moves 00:04:44.779 --> 00:04:48.060 to support the electric vehicle industry. So 00:04:48.060 --> 00:04:51.160 that's maybe an area where we might see some 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.980 policies roll over and continue. And I think 00:04:54.980 --> 00:04:56.959 like similarly, you know, under the Biden administration, 00:04:57.420 --> 00:05:00.160 the United States was producing more fossil fuels, 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:04.699 more oil and gas than at any other point in the 00:05:04.699 --> 00:05:08.920 history of the United States. So i mean they're 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.860 they're sort of um i think uh you can look at 00:05:11.860 --> 00:05:14.560 the track records of both administrations and 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.720 um and point out different ways in which they 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.519 did or did not um contribute to the um the fight 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.660 against climate change um at the same time i 00:05:24.660 --> 00:05:29.939 i do think what i really worry about is um under 00:05:29.939 --> 00:05:32.759 the first trump administration i mean we saw 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:38.370 how um just like Just the way he talked about 00:05:38.370 --> 00:05:41.689 things, just the way his administration talked 00:05:41.689 --> 00:05:46.149 about things has a really big effect on how people 00:05:46.149 --> 00:05:49.529 think about them. And not only not only the climate 00:05:49.529 --> 00:05:53.829 crisis, but in all kinds of different areas of 00:05:53.829 --> 00:05:57.490 American life, immigration, for example, you 00:05:57.490 --> 00:06:00.569 know, and race and identity. And I think that 00:06:00.569 --> 00:06:05.980 that to me is almost more. one of the things 00:06:05.980 --> 00:06:13.379 that I am more more worried about and what that's 00:06:13.379 --> 00:06:15.600 going to mean for climate change, because I think 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.660 if you have, you know, the most powerful elected 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:23.839 officials in the United States and they're not 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.480 willing to acknowledge the reality of climate 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:31.819 change, I think that that is almost going to 00:06:31.819 --> 00:06:35.509 be more damaging. um maybe in some ways to um 00:06:35.509 --> 00:06:40.050 how the the kind of overall outlook on um the 00:06:40.050 --> 00:06:42.990 the future of the climate crisis than um maybe 00:06:42.990 --> 00:06:44.870 any other thing that the trump administration 00:06:44.870 --> 00:06:49.009 could do and um that any administration could 00:06:49.009 --> 00:06:52.470 do And this is all happening, you know, at such 00:06:52.470 --> 00:06:59.370 a pivotal time for climate action and for the 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:01.470 climate crisis where we are starting to see the 00:07:01.470 --> 00:07:04.589 first ripples of what what the future is going 00:07:04.589 --> 00:07:08.910 to look like. And so I guess I think that I'm 00:07:08.910 --> 00:07:12.449 just I don't know. I guess that's why I wonder 00:07:12.449 --> 00:07:18.290 if we all. in the press did a good enough job 00:07:18.290 --> 00:07:19.769 of making sure that that was at the forefront 00:07:19.769 --> 00:07:23.410 of people's minds in this election. And I don't 00:07:23.410 --> 00:07:27.149 think we did. Well, hopefully instead of taking 00:07:27.149 --> 00:07:31.050 steps backwards, we can take steps forward into 00:07:31.050 --> 00:07:36.389 the new year. This is Eldon, the production engineer. 00:07:36.670 --> 00:07:39.290 I hope this excerpt from our conversations made 00:07:39.290 --> 00:07:41.170 you think about the future. The climate crisis 00:07:41.170 --> 00:07:43.629 is worsening as we speak and discussions on the 00:07:43.629 --> 00:07:45.980 climate are needed more than ever. Climate to 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:47.920 Action is dedicated to hosting more discussions 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.019 just like this one next semester, so look out 00:07:50.019 --> 00:07:51.980 for more unfiltered honesty on the climate crisis. 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.180 Our call to action for this episode is to read 00:07:55.180 --> 00:07:57.420 an article on the climate crisis, either on the 00:07:57.420 --> 00:08:00.500 national or local level. Want to hear more from 00:08:00.500 --> 00:08:03.939 Climate to Action, a CSUSM student podcast? Follow 00:08:03.939 --> 00:08:06.959 us on our socials at Climate to Action. Visit 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.100 for updates, behind -the -scenes content, and 00:08:09.100 --> 00:08:11.779 more. Until next time, this is Eldon from Climate 00:08:11.779 --> 00:08:12.819 to Action signing off.