Podcast: the faces of environmental racism – Folha – 11/22/2023 – Podcasts

British actor and activist Fehinti Balogun, known for roles in productions such as “Dune” and the series “I May Destroy You”, comes to Brazil next week to promote the film “Can I Live”, directed by him. Inspired by a play of the same name, the production debates environmental racism.

The theme became central to Balogun’s career in 2018, when he was researching a theater job and started reading about the impacts of the climate crisis; A conversation with his mother opened his eyes to the differences in these impacts between black populations. The artist and activist tells Café da Manhã that the two things go together: art brings people closer to the debate about climate change and environmental racism.

Balogun says he feels, on trips to discuss the topic, an increasing openness, even though he sees it as a great challenge to carry out this debate by presenting feasible solutions — without them, in the British man’s view, people become disillusioned and apathetic.

In this Wednesday’s episode (22), Café da Manhã explains how the climate crisis especially affects black populations, discusses the phenomenon in Brazil and analyzes possible responses. In addition to Fehinti Balogun, the podcast interviews quilombola biologist Maíra Rodrigues, a doctoral candidate in geosciences at Unicamp, specialist in natural resources policy and management and coordinator of the environmental racism area at the Peregum Institute.

The audio program is published on Spotify, a streaming service partner of Sheet in the initiative and which specializes in music, podcast and video. You can listen to the episode by clicking above. To access the app, simply register for free.

Café da Manhã is published from Monday to Friday, always at the beginning of the day. The episode is presented by journalists Gabriela Mayer and Gustavo Simon, produced by Carolina Moraes, Laila Mouallem and Victor Lacombe. Sound editing is by Laila Mouallem and Thomé Granemann.