Episode 22: It’s a f#@king emergency, with Emma Jackson

As the second wave of COVID-19 rages on in Alberta and across the country, most of us are starting to truly understand what a global crisis is like. For advocates like Emma Jackson, co-founder of Climate Justice Edmonton, seeing that level of widespread clarity has been a dream scenario regarding the nightmare we face with our climate. 

The climate crisis is a real f#@king emergency and it’s way past time the entire world and our governments treat is as such. The Forgotten Corner welcomes Emma to the show this week for a no-punches-pulled conversation about the global climate crisis.

We talk about CJE and what led her and a group of like-minded women to establish it, and Emma tells us the story of getting arrested in Vancouver in 2018 as part of a daring protest over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 

For our “main course,” we talk with Emma about the Green New Deal and why it’s really “the only way” forward as we tackle this crisis that we have created. She takes aim at politicians, past and present, for their “new climate denialism” and this batshit crazy idea that we can keep expanding fossil fuel extraction while fighting the realities of climate change. 

Follow Emma on Twitter at @EmmaJackson57

Follow CJE at @CJEdmonton, or like their Facebook page.

Visit their website.

Read more about the bridge protest in Vancouver.