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567 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Bernadette Demientieff and the People of the Gwich’in Nation Want You To Know That We’re All Connected
Season 7
Episode 567
Published 3 years, 8 months ago
Description
Guest host Shelley Hearne, director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy, brings us eight miles above the Arctic Circle to talk with Bernadette Demientieff, council member for the Arctic Refuge Defense Council and member of the Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich'in Tribe. They discuss the very real impacts of climate change on her community in their day-to-day lives and our global interconnectedness, including why it matters to all of us what's happening in a remote corner of the world.