 So thank you very much. Yeah, so with my topic being how the and I think we're gonna have some slides my topic being how the excessive how excessive wealth disorder hurts the environment. I have 60 slides in seven minutes So, um, let's see how that goes. And so the first slide I guess do I do it do I advance them or do I tell you? pardon Do I advance the slides myself or do I tell you when to advance? I'm sorry Okay, is there a is there a clicker somewhere? Sorry. Okay, sorry. Okay. Thanks. Okay, so Thank you, so I hopefully Thank you so So to quote the spider-man's uncle Ben with great power comes great responsibility and we know that different folks with wealth have Different ways of interpreting that some do the right thing like a couple of people who are in the room and others Who use their wealth in in responsible ways and our what was the phrase that was used by Barbara wealth? Traders Class traders, thank you and others not so much. And so we know how this really has We're pretty dire impacts on the environment in terms of some folks who are dominating. Thank you dominating our Economy and our political our political systems and so there's these are five facts That hopefully I can be from here that are linking wealth inequality with the environment before by these Dario Kenner and Richard drier So the richest 10% spend more including on indicators of the ecological footprint including fuel for private jets as was said before And or meat and other things That on average support for a strong environmental policies is higher in countries where inequality is lower That inequality is a strong indicator a driver of consumption including the consumption of the wealthy but also through status envy and where people are trying to catch up and that the Well held by the world 782 high net worth individuals alone could provide over half of the world Population with access to 100% renewable energy by 2030 if we were able to redirect that well And just as a note in and many of the privatization scenarios What is it happening in terms of how wealth is being directed is that the primary goal isn't to meet energy Water food housing or criminal justice needs it is to make as much money as possible on the commodities of energy food water Housing and incarcerated persons as I'll illustrate as we go forward And so this is basically 10 illustrative scenarios and hopefully you can I'm talking like an auctioneer, but again seven minutes How well how an unequal wealth and power are destroying the environment and so first looking at a historical context looking images from the trail of tears to the to the reckless extraction of natural resources to this being the 400th anniversary of the transatlantic slave trade we have this history of rampant and commoditization violent extraction and exploitation of human and natural resources and all this is institutionalized in our trade policies our manufacturing policies and so forth and so on and so with our energy systems we put out a report this year in April 1st called fossil fuel foolery and Illustrated a primer on the top-ten manipulation tactics of the fossil fuel industry and just to show you a few we have the investment in efforts that undermine democracy that is put forth by the industry we have The financing of sorry can you go back? Oh, sorry you're gonna miss that one anyway the financing of political campaigns We have the funding of scientists and scientific institutions to public bias research studies Let's say basically the climate change doesn't exist. We have. Oh, thank you Okay, maybe maybe you can go back again. Sorry violence financing of political campaigns again Okay, so financing of political campaigns and pressuring politicians which we've spoken about and then we have the contending that government government regulations hurt the economy ratepayers and poor people and so The ways that people have put this across have been very Unfortunately successful in so many ways and it's to the detriment of the economy and of our human rights Then we have denying or understanding the harms that polluting facilities cause to the people in the environment And if you can see the tagline here first, we have to convince the people that good health isn't everything so these are the kinds of Messages that we that are kind of the undercurrents of what we hear every day Deflecting responsibility and shifting blames to the very communities that that they pollute I can't tell you how many times I've heard from these polluting folks like oh they moved here Like we were just minding our own business and then this community member moved into you know into our cloud of pollution and and then pacifying co-opting and Misrepresenting communities and organizations trying to buy folks off trying to to fool folks into supporting Supporting people supporting this agenda and being the weapons of our own destruction And then praising false solutions and denouncing real solutions I never thought I'd be quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I equally await the administration's regulations protecting pagers fax machines and blockbuster He said in response to Trump administration Trying to support the brain coal back and so and then yeah, so all the different ways we do that And so just a few energy inequality by the numbers $6 trillion is the amount of our of our energy economy $9.8 million is the average compensation for for for coal company CEOs 38 that 33,840 dollars is the average amount that workers make and a bonus statistic there is that on average the CEOs compensation is 289 times the rate of the average average worker and another bonus Is that two billion dollars is the amount between? 2000 and 2016 that these companies spent on anti regulatory anti clean energy Lobbying 41 billion dollars is how much african-americans spend on energy every year 1.1% is the amount of the number the percentage of african-americans who are working in the energy sector and less than 0.1% is The amount of revenue the african-americans gain from the energy sector and then five dollars is another bonus statistic Is the average wealth of a black woman and so this really kind of paints a picture of like just a sheer impacts of Or the numbers of energy inequality and then how that actually plays out is another I'll talk a little bit more in these illustrative scenarios And so as we know this kind of agenda protecting that level of wealth Plays out in how we're seeing these kind of images and these kind of policy making in terms of rolling back Regulations to protect that that wealth and keep that wealth quite centralized So we put out reports like fumes across the fence line that really show that communities of color low-income communities are always tend to be on the on the front lines of the impacts of the fossil fuel industry cold-blooded putting profits before people also pointing out that 78% of african-americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant african-american children are three to five times more likely to enter in the hospital from an asthma attack and two To three times more likely to die of an asthma attack And so these are the types of ways that people are more exposed to the pollution that comes from this these money-making Industries in the way they're doing their their money making this is on the lower left hand is the seizure Chavez high school Which is in Houston, Texas? Which in the oil refinery behind it is one of five oil refiners within a 10 mile radius of that school because they have This pro-business policy that has no zoning which means that you have this kind of Zoning of a school right on top of a polluting oil refinery and the upper right-hand corner We have coal miners 76,000 coal miners have died of black lung disease since 1968 while the National Mining Association That represents their very employers have fought against the regulation that would have protected them from from coal mine dust Meanwhile, they're fighting in the courts They've actually employed folks from places like Hopkins to say in court that when when people come in and Are seeking benefits for black lung they will say oh well, that's not black lung That's tuberculosis like this mad rash of tuberculosis among minors and in order to refuse families benefits So this is just more of kind of the same. This is a family in in the Four-corner's region and the coal-fired power plant behind them is one of four coal-fired power plants within a 30 mile Radio 30 mile radius of where they live But yet though they have the two coolers on the porch because they like 70% of the people on these Navajo lands do not have Electricity or even running water. So this is really just the height of inequality all of that electricity that's generated by those coal plants goes to power Las Vegas, Los Angeles and and Phoenix and and doesn't even go to the places who are The communities that are bearing the brunt of the expert Journalities from those report those on those emissions like asthma like COPD like the birth defects that I don't know if you notice So one of the person's picture there was pregnant that the person might be facing and so oops Sorry, can we go back to other slides? Sorry about that the other side is a report We put out last year called lights out in the cold reforming utilities shut off policies as if human rights matter And in that report we profiled a number of families individuals who have actually paid the price of poverty with their lives when their electricity is cut off and they use candles to light their home and the candles end up burning down their home when they Electricity get when their power their oil and gaskets cut off and they use space heaters to to heat their home and then we know space heaters are the number one cause of of Home fires and then this person just last summer a grandmother who had just paid and Was having a hard time paid and her spaying and her son paid $200 on the bill But it didn't catch up in the system quickly enough and they caught off her electricity And she was dependent on a respirator and that respirator of course was run by electricity and so she died So literally paying the price of property with her lives But meanwhile people are making nine point eight million dollars a year and in compensation So my time is very much up and I'd have like 30 months. Okay. Good. Can I have a little okay? Yeah, all right two more minutes. Awesome. So I'll talk even faster So with our food systems when you talk about big egg We have the terminator seeds which again going against the very laws of nature the regenerative notion of nature of of nature which Which is these terminator seeds would then go on which blow over into farmers lands and they're kind of they have this kind of Vival impact on farmers and Vandana Shiva has done a lot of work on the the proliferation of Suicide now amongst farmers because of the impact of some of these big egg practices We also know the commercial animal feeding operations while amassing money for for these agricultural with for these companies that are Making money off of meat are then harming the not only the animals in terms of the inhumane conditions that they're working in but also the the the The health impacts whether it's the methane that's being emitted driving climate change or the communities that living adjacent to these situations and then and then again with the people being more likely to access the negative impacts of the Food production also less likely to actually access Healthy and nutritious foods they they talk about communities being food deserts But the communities that are in those conditions don't actually like to term food deserts because deserts are implied something that happens Naturally, and they know that whether it's redlining or gentrification and displacement or all these different ways that they're Intentionally separated from resources so they prefer terms like food apartheid and so forth that actually name what's actually going on One of my friends who lives in the DC area who's a white American? She can't she told me that her son came home from school one day And he said mom why are all the black kids rich and she's like what makes you think that Milo and he said well You know I just have carrots and celery in my lunch And they have Doritos and Cheetos and take Keto's and so I'm like there's so much wrong with that statement But we but we both kind of analyzed because she's a labor organizer as well And just analyze what that actually what all went into that comment and so we talk about our water systems We all know that the trifecta of the Flint water crisis wasn't just about poison water. It was about water that was poisoned by legacy Legacy pollution from industry that was unregulated because of the influence of pollute of these polluters over our political economy And then the disinvestment once once Flint kind of had worn out its usefulness to these communities that pulled out on mass and And pulled out hundreds of thousands of jobs from Flint that left it in the situation where they where they were vulnerable to having their Democracy displace and we see that kind of that kind of situation that kind of plays out time and time again Like the red dog mine in the Alaska area Which has violated the clean out of clean water acts 600 times and yet it continues to operate And yet we have people who again get caught off from electricity because they lose a couple of Payments so again, I could go on and on because there's about 20 sides left But just to wrap up because our time is short just that these are just a couple of more talking about Halliburton that actually sought an exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act The notion that someone can even apply for an exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act Let's us know what's wrong with our political system and of itself and so in the end we talk about some of the other Disparities in the ways that the companies all sway over that that are driving the the climate crisis Which again, hopefully you'll have access to this you can see some of this yourself But in the very last slide is oh well before that This just one quote and when we talk about the US being 4% of the global population But 25% of the emissions of drive climate change and yet we have these punitive migration immigration policies And this is a quote from war sign sure a Kenyan born Somali poet You have to understand that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land So these are just 10 policy solutions that I put forward and of course the last one is tech techs the super wealthy And that's my contact information. Thank you