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Cherry Picking with Alexia Benn

Welcome to Cherry Picking, a political podcast recorded on lək̓ʷəŋən territory. Initially, this show was created by host Alexia Benn as a coping mechanism to find joy while completing the final year of her undergrad. Uniquely messy, at times particularly niche, and consistently caught within the contradictions of life, Cherry Picking now seeks to analyze, interrogate, and assess private and public policy through the consumption and gossip of mainstream media, acknowledging profit incentives lurking in the political sphere. From municipal politics, RCMP expenditures, anarchist and Marxist theory, environmental policy, and Indigenous governance, facts, feelings and ideas meet in the ether, given a chance to air themselves out. Always professionally unbiased, and always driven by the utmost care and consideration for human life, with a goal of accessibility. What does the acid rain which falls from the sky whisper to us? How do we listen? What will we do? Tune in most Wednesdays, sometimes with guests!

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Cherry Picking with Alexia Benn

An Honest Conversation About Climate Change

November 17, 2021 • Alexia • Season 1 • Episode 15

Inspired by the recent 'atmospheric river' on Monday that delivered over an entire month of rain in one day in some areas, today on Episode 15 of Cherry Picking, we delve into the topic of climate change. And as of now, the lower mainland is extremely insecure in its supply chain connections with the rest of Canada due to this event. What does this mean?

Portions of the Coquihalla highway are down, entire cities are on mandatory evacuation notices, dairy farmers are reportedly pouring out vats of milk with no way to distribute their product, and at least 1 person has been killed in a mudslide on Highway 1. This all follows a summer that brought the province an astronomically destructive forest fire season, a heat dome that killed more than 600 people over the course of a single weekend, and recent abnormal weather events such as a tornado and 'bomb cyclone'.

Climate change will be a defining factor for the trajectory of our lives, our children's lives, and all lives to follow. Our generation has been presented with quite the predicament. Right now, we have all the opportunity, hope, and possibility for genuine, positive change. If we miss the forest for the trees, the current events we are all bearing witness to will surely be just the beginning of the destruction yet to come. Why is climate change such a contentious, divisive topic? Is it really all so political? And what individual power do we have in all this, if any?

I promise that we are all capable of far more than we may give ourselves credit.

Cheers,

Alexia

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