After two days of star-studded talks on climate change, Hillary Clinton closed the Environmental Media Association Impact Summit on Wednesday with a talk about children and the planet — and Donald Trump’s recent culpability. A look at the decisions.
Clinton joined showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett and Good Energy founder Anna Jean Joyner at Pendery West Hollywood for a panel on how climate change is affecting children’s development. The Clinton Foundation is focusing on the issue through its Too Small to Fail program, and is pushing to highlight it in Hollywood projects to raise awareness.
“There’s been a lot of, really big effort to convince people about climate change and a lot of dramatic information and even dramatic movies about the consequences that we’re going to face,” Clinton told the crowd. have been.” “And so we know that part of the message of hitting people over the head and saying, ‘For heaven’s sake, wake up, if you don’t do something, it’s going to be a disaster’ is a bit overwhelming for people. Because They are not quite sure, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ There are things they can do and that’s where we want stories to show them. There’s a lot of big structural institutional change to happen at the global, national, state levels, but we want to empower people to get that much information. That they can work on their own.”
Dayna Long, MD, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Hillary Clinton, Tamara Krinsky and Anna Jane Joyner.
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The former secretary of state also pointed to all the recent natural disasters caused by climate change, noting that they will affect economies and that “climate migration is going to dominate the next 25 years. From the south “With the migration of people, we’re going to have more diseases because insects are going to be able to live at higher and higher latitudes. So these are all things that people are familiar with but need to understand better, and.” Especially since what we’re concerned about has a huge impact on children.
Asked what gives her hope right now, Clinton deadpanned, “I have a new fondness for the number 34,” referring to Trump’s indictment last week on 34 counts of falsifying business records. She added that she also feels inspired that “people don’t get beaten up. They are resilient, they are determined and no matter how hard it is out there, we don’t lose.” There are no givers or losers, and we have to feel that.”
Earlier in the day, Shailene Woodley moderated a panel on youth-powered climate justice and Lance Bass participated in a conversation about space medicine. Eli Roth and showrunner Jesus Lopez also talked about incorporating environmental stories into horror and genre projects.
Jesus Lopez and Eli Roth
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With the latest season set in an Alaskan mining town and exploring some of the environmental issues surrounding the mining industry, Lopez said, “The stories we tell, I think it’s important because it’s about It is a reflection of who we are and the seed of who we want to be, so we need to put the seed of change in everything we do.
Roth pointed out how some of the environmental issues surrounding fast fashion — one of today’s biggest sustainability issues — could be addressed on screen, saying that when someone uses TikTok “Someone in a very poor part of the world is paying for it. In a terrible way, and we don’t put it together and the people who are doing it don’t know that. That’s going to be a problem. You can put it in, say, a horror movie, in a scene that you wouldn’t expect, where people are just like, ‘Wait, is that true?’ And you plant that seed and they go, ‘I’m not going to buy clothes that I wear once and show on TikTok.’
David Wilde, Phil Rosenthal and Ted Denison
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Wednesday also featured a live recording of Phil Rosenthal and David Wilde’s podcast, with guest Ted Danson. Denison, a longtime ocean advocate and Oceania board member, is launching a new podcast with Woody Harrelson, which he discusses alongside his climate activism and his Fire Drill Friday. was arrested with Jane Fonda for (she called it “the champagne of arrests”).
“I’m very clear about what my job is,” Denson said of his activist role. “The celebrity gets the microphone, so I’ve been known to stand in front of the tent and say, ‘Thank you for watching and I’d love for you to meet this marine biologist because he’s incredible. It’s bright,’ that’s my job and it’s still my job.
On top of Wednesday’s packed lineup, the first day of the summit included Ryan Wilson, Ed Begley Jr., Richa Morjani and Natalie Morales. The event was presented by Toyota.
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