Class 12: “Reducing Environmental Inequities” by UC Berkeley Professor Reich

[@ravenwolf79]

I am loving this course. I am an 80-year old woman who has gotten hooked on free lectures from great schools (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc.). This course is the best one yet! Dr. Reich, you are a treasure!

[@kellywest111]

Man he is such a great teacher. I would love to see his class in person.

[@EerieCipher]

Me too. I was looking into the public policy masters program there and for 23,000$?....I'll just go to the University of Amsterdam for about €2,000 T0T

[@Synthetrix]

I graduated high school in the early Eighties and college was not an option, so I am very grateful to be able to watch this course now in my 60s for free. Thank you professor Reich.😊

[@OnlyWaterInTheForest]

Thank you again Professor Reich for making available your lectures for this course. You are an amazing professor and a national treasure.

[@robino5175]

At one time I wanted to go to Berkeley graduate school after finishing law school to learn but also to get another degree. Now I don’t care about another degree but I do care about becoming more knowledgeable. Thank you Professor Reich!

[@grmpEqweer]

Degrees are generally job certifications, more than anything. For some, a big networking opportunity, as well. You can certainly learn independently.

[@kwabenaekuban6024]

I have listened to this course, all 14 lectures and I feel so educated. Thank you Dr. Reich.

[@DestinBeachImages]

Thank you. The art of the lecture is still here. I have learned so much from this series. We are fortunate to have you share it.

[@census4510]

This was such an important class, explaining what should be obvious, but often gets lost in the political rhetoric. One of the examples about "PCB" contamination in 1982 sure hit home. In 1973 a toxic flame retardant chemical ended up in livestock feed plants. Millions of Michiganders at the beef, chick, milk, eggs etc., and it remains in our system even today. Whereas it wasn't a systematic result of inequality, the repercussions were equally as devastating. Great class, loved the personal stories, especially down at the draft board. Laugh out loud funny! Thank you for letting us participate.

[@ry8519]

Thank You for uploading this lecture Professor Reich ❤🙏

[@williamronne699]

Robert Reich is a gem, his draft board incident reminds me of Alices Restaurant. He is one of todays few scholars that can give us all clear understanding about the inner workings of power and influence that is unavailable for us to know generally.

[@marisastevens3690]

Excellent series, especially after finishing law school. My father was drafted into the VN War, and exposure to agent orange (and a lack of response) was yet another example of our failures in Environmental Justice Awareness.

[@carolekielly1392]

Prof. Reich, I’m really enjoying your course remotely from Toronto Canada, but your comments beginning at 44:30 of the “Adapting to Climate Change” class, regarding who is “on” the Arctic, are incomplete. Russia has 20% of its considerable land mass north of the arctic circle, with Canada at 25% of our landmass. The US has barely any (and then there’s Norway, Greenland, Denmark and Sweden) within the Arctic Circle, although it’s clear the interest is large. Given that, I’m not sure why Canada was left out of your assessment and the US and Russia were mentioned as if equal in terms of Arctic claims. Thanks.

[@challengerRT392]

I learn so much from these lectures, your anecdote of the "tunnel rat" experience was very amusing (maybe not at the time), professor!

[@Frank-sm9yl]

He was no tunnel rat nor did he serve. Reich was one of those who spit on soldiers coming home from Nam.

[@alexi2460]

Prof R is the best. Profits and greed, there is enough to go around but we as workers are under paid so some corporate hog can have a yacht.

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

The top five percent pay over half the federal taxes

[@i2really1der]

Thank you for the class. Gracias por la clase.

[@dawnjones659]

Love the clapping! Great connection with Climate justice. Appreciate hearing your experience in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

[@Aikidragon_Prime]

Robert, you need to run for President. America and the planet need someone like you in a position of power to set things straight, you'd have my vote.

[@coopsnz1]

He a communist

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

Don't want a communist for president

[@YoungAstronomicalReaserc-zf8zy]

@@coopsnz1 All communists are liberals but not all liberals are communists

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

In Houston the government has agreed to relocate an entire neighborhood because of a cancer cluster near a railroad yard. Lung cancer, childhood leukemia, etc

[@richardjimenez7394]

Thanks for your lecture. It’s educational for me to be informative to me . It’s opening my eyes for the truth of government .

[@kathiebrobeck3426]

As a Berserkler Nee, I'm very interested in these graphs. Lucky for me, my first home was on Warring St, South Campus.

[@boombot934]

Thank❤🌹🙏 you, professor Robert Reich👍!

[@christopherbullock1209]

We established that poor people live where it’s hazardous. Without insurance or disaster relief, they can’t sell everything, what little wealth they have, and move because nobody will buy it. Grapes of Wrath all over again. 1:00:12

[@lynndupree1205]

A real deep dive into all types of inequality! Highly recommend this course for anyone who wishes to challege assumptions they may already have.

[@NoraGermain]

Decarbonization is vital but it doesn’t directly address the extinction crisis. Important to remember!

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"doesn’t directly address the extinction crisis" And neither do you. What crisis? I am still here and obviously you are still here.

[@marc-andredesrosiers523]

I recommend reading chapter 5 of "People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health", chapter 5. Great discussion if similar-related issues.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Thank you🙏 I will watch this later.

[@EMowe-wu7co]

This lecture is so important and so great - I hope many more people will watch it. On that note: Will it be available after the semester or will it go offline at some point? Thank you :)

[@lornacairns8475]

SHARE! SHARE! SHARE!

[@silencesays228]

Interesting points in this lecture. Check out vehicle price tags and gas mileage. The higher the price tag for the car, usually the worst gas mileage. It takes money to be able to afford to waste resources.

[@coopsnz1]

Blame union leaders & Government for higher costs to build cars 🚗

[@jimallen8186]

@@coopsnz1 Must have missed the lecture about monopoly and tacit collusions of near monopolies.

[@coopsnz1]

@@jimallen8186 monopoly socialism policy dummy

[@silencesays228]

@@coopsnz1 I'm talking about Luxury cars like Bentley, Rolls Royce, or hyper cars like Ferrari or McLaren. Those cars will never be cheap and it doesn't have anything to do with unions or government regulations. Their gas mileage is about the same as a car that was built in the 1960s or 1970s.

[@valkyriefrost5301]

@@coopsnz1 - no, blame crony capitalism and campaign contributions (legalized bribes) from the corporate wealthy to ensure their monopolies and their profit margins.

[@JP-JustSayin]

Unintended consequence of WW2 Era price and wage controls ... employer supplied health insurance became more wide spread. Because employers were not permitted to offer higher wages they started to use "fringe benefits" to attract and retain talent... no body saw it coming so its not like there is a conspiracy or anything... but factually speaking this is PART of how we got the health insurance situation that we have today.

[@bolt5564]

And now it is harder for employees to calculate their total compensation because they must figure out the value of dissimilar benefits, instead of simply comparing salary.

[@anacolh7710]

Thank you Professor, I love you class 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Synthetrix]

Even if no one lives there at the moment, they may in the future. Love Canal is just one example.

[@2152133]

I’m going to be so sad when this course is over.

[@karthikckrishna]

Liked the lecture … on Ukraine or else where the US aggression has been extreme and especially what Nuland did to Ukraine in 2014

[@devrawiseman8331]

In the UK, 2023, we are hearing precisely that our soaring inflation is being driven, largely, by wage inflation. But some information has come out about some companies' profitability. Some big oil companies have amassed profits in first 6 months of 2023 of $219 billion. This is just indicative.

[@brianmerino4021]

Anyone else watching this series for Econ?

[@joweb1320]

We need a carbon ration!!

[@shirleyreese6832]

Professor Reich, you, sir, are a great man. BTW, I don't like Larry Summers & never have. He is quite anti poor ppl.

[@angreehulk]

🤘

[@JP-JustSayin]

"Oh ... that memo? ... I didn't write that memo ... I didn't even read that memo ... I just put my name on it and it went out." ... and you want this guy in the cabinet? Set the horrific contents of the memo aside ... a person who operates in this way is manifestly irresponsible with the power entrusted to them and can only be a liability to ANY organization.

[@jorgegomezmonge5344]

Very good class about contaminated areas by the way I lLOL I adapted tdy by taking a bath with two cups of water my city is without water for pipes repair 2.7' without water lack of preparation to water crisis system distribution but I'm more concern this city dumps it's swer remanents to the sea at imperial beach and 100 KMS of beaches to the south swer is Beeing dump crude without treatment to the sea

[@jorgegomezmonge5344]

The education needed for good governance and power to do better equal goverment

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

Why such a low percentage of working age people without jobs

[@silencesays228]

And once again, Gen X is forgotten in the list of generations.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"Gen X is forgotten in the list of generations." Actually, Gen A through Gen W seem to have been forgotten. Not sure they ever existed.

[@Stonecoldfrank]

Unemployment is not "low", labor participation rate is barely above 60%. That's not quite half the population not working, but still.

[@ProgressiveEconomicsSupporter]

Please, Prof. Reich, don't tell your students that tax payers have to pay for all the increasing costs for climate change-associated disasters and preventive measures! It would not be possible! It's jot the tax payers who pays for everything! Please talk to Stephanie Kelton. She advised Bernie Sanders 🙏

[@Aikidragon_Prime]

If all oil produced in the U.S. is kept inside the U.S. the price of gas wouldn't increase, but since it is shipped to other countries we pay more.

[@grmpEqweer]

We use about 19 million barrels a day. We produce about 16.5 million barrels a day. Just saying. Double check and look it up for yourself.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

@@grmpEqweer I doubt that facts are included in this channel.

[@fritzforsthoefel8031]

You are right

[@fightthepower4648]

KZbin video: "Global Declaration of Independence - Fight the Power"

[@whtvrwrks]

He can have a promising career as a stand-up! The story about tunnel rat - very funny 🙂

[@richardsheehan6983]

Do we love being ""stupefied"?" Do we love it? Does it seem so?

[@Edo9River]

Who are Larry Summers best friends😂😂😂😂😂?

[@allanjboysen2491]

The political landscape is a sham, for climate matters America's leadership needs to control it's own destiny. That's why we require a refresh nuance approach. Hypothetically, presenting, the self funding green third party. The goal is to get tripartisan in government, on climate change objectives. Consensus on green sustainable funding and practices. Two billion is required to run a presidential in US race, that's not democracy, that's oligarchy fencing other's out. That's the challenge. Public donations will never be able to pool that kind of financial equal. Even if they did,(get in) the candidate may,(as on tv ) decide thereafter to go rouge. So funding pre-and-pro election is very important.Skill set for workplace, not fundraising. My hope is that new eye's will understand the and confront these issues and address them with a new formula. The biggest hurdle but at the same time the biggest gain, is not firing on all cylinder's, no third party is thought of as a serious threat, and for good reasons. No serious funding. But that's not the failure, it's how it's funded. Our strength is numbers and the organizing. Our focus is to form a green party. Allow our version of 'super packs' the same but different. Now with our 'super pack' the idea is for green businesses to become integral to a future design of sustainable products and services in cicular economy, with discounts for loyalty etc as informed consumer's. Many entrepreneur's wither on the vine with no support, yet people and Earth suffer, unawear of these benefits. It works, ask big oil. A government the plays as a neutral party, this will open to a free market allowing the people, too decide. So we know the WHY. The HOW, we have the blueprint on the how. The WHERE, is everywhere. The WHAT, is the green righteous, bettering the world than when we entered it. The WHEN, can start now. Vote the third party all are welcome WHO share a bright green sustainable, thriving future, this tent houses for your idea's open source.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"Our strength is numbers and the organizing." OUR? How many of you are in there? For whom do you speak?

[@cl8804]

latinx Dxracer

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"UC Berkeley Professor..." Ah, I see.