{"id":75674,"date":"2020-07-29T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=75674"},"modified":"2020-07-29T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:42:59","slug":"how-covid-19-made-it-easier-to-talk-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/how-covid-19-made-it-easier-to-talk-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Made It Easier to Talk About Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a climate policy director and architect of the Green New Deal, explains the connections between the pandemic and the climate crisis.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Rhiana Gunn-Wright had asthma growing up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">So did many of her neighbors in Englewood, on the South Side of Chicago, where pediatric hospitalization rates for asthma were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-xpm-2007-10-09-0710050355-story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">significantly higher<\/a>&nbsp;than the rate nationwide in the early 2000s. Ms. Gunn-Wright had so many friends with asthma that she assumed it was a \u201cchildhood disease\u201d that all young people had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Only later in life did she realize it was linked to air pollution in the area, as was shown by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sciencematters\/links-between-air-pollution-and-childhood-asthma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">research<\/a>&nbsp;funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">For some policymakers and advocates, even those organizing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/20\/climate\/global-climate-strike.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global climate strikes<\/a>, the effects of climate change can feel distant, but Ms. Gunn-Wright, 30, never had that luxury. Her work on environmental justice has always felt personal, tied to the public health problems in her community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Rhiana Gunn-Wright had asthma growing up.&nbsp;So did many of her neighbors in Englewood, on the South Side of Chicago, where pediatric hospitalization rates for asthma were&nbsp;significantly higher&nbsp;than the rate nationwide in the early 2000s. 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