Climate Crisis and Energy Violence - Mary Finley-Brook and Stephen Metts

In this episode, Dr. Mary Finley-Brook and Mr. Stephen Metts discuss their upcoming book, "Climate Crisis - Energy Violence." Finley-Brook and Metts have been studying the intersection of climate crisis - the rapidly changing climate brought on by human activities -- and energy violence -- the damage being done to our environment by a variety of malevolent human activities including the extraction of oil and natural gas for use in our powering our petroleum-centric world.

This episode covers a wide range of issues and questions including:

• How do we address proximity issues (how close extractive industries are to urban populations) and social justice issues?
• They discuss the Millenium Pipeline and its impact on nearby residents in the Hudson Valley area
• They discuss the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and its impact . . . both Finley-Brook and Metts worked to defeat this pipeline
• Greenwashing and environmental illiteracy
• Methane literacy
• FERC and environmental racism
• FERC's propensity to "rubber stamp" approving pipelines (a 99% approval rate!)
• Erosion and biodiversity
• The gaps in the regulatory system with respect to the environmental and climate impacts of pipelines (specifically around space and infrastructure; point source polluters in an urban environment)
• The definition of environmental justice in urban and rural environments
• The conflicts between state and federal governments over the impact of pipeline installations
• The conflict of interest in having the fossil fuel industry define "best practices" with respect to a variety of development standards
• The problem with carbon capture: does it really work and is it affordable?

You can watch their presentation of FaCT Ohio here. And you can learn more about the mission of FaCT Ohio here.