Prakash: Climate Action Requires Holding Federal Governing Power for a Decade
Varshini Prakash · How I Built Resilience: Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement · Nov 5, 2020 · at 9:37
Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash discusses the political scale and duration needed to implement comprehensive climate policy with Guy Raz.
0:00 / 0:14exact quote · 14.2s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“We probably have to pass dozens of pieces of legislation at the federal level over the next decade of time, which means that people with our values have to govern and hold on to governing power For perhaps a decade or longer.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Varshini Prakash
Prakash: A Middle-Ground Climate Compromise Is Worse Than the Status Quo
“The truth is they have pulled the entire conversation so far to the right that on climate change, I mean, the middle ground is, is probably worse than we are today.”
Prakash: Civil Disobedience Forces Private Suffering Into the National Debate
“The reason why we do civil disobedience or the reason why we take this type of action is so people, so that we can bring the kind of private suffering that is happening all across the country into public relief and force that into the national dialogue and deb…”
Prakash: The Environmental Movement Has Capital but Lacks Effective Deployment
“We have a lot of money at our disposal, not just as Sunrise, but as the entire left or the environmental movement. The question is, is that being wielded effectively or is it not?”
Prakash: Viral Moments Must Be Paired With Grassroots Organizing
“And so I think, you know, both combining the viral moments, but also the brass tacks day to day grassroots organizing, that is what builds power in local communities.”
Prakash: Sunrise Teenagers Made 850,000 Calls to Help Bowman Defeat Engel
“Sunrise teenagers, literally teenagers, made 850
Thousand of the 1.3 million phone calls that were made to voters in his district, ultimately helping him defeat Elliot Engel.”
Prakash: Sunrise Prioritizes Mobilizing Believers Over Persuading Climate Skeptics
“I would say for the most part, we focus on those who understand the reality of the climate crisis, who are terrified about it and want to do something about it, but haven't yet found the community or the movement to participate in.”