A just transition for the working class
Britain has a pretty terrible track record of managing energy transitions, as I unfortunately know from my own life experience. Here, I talk about what a just transition for workers and communities might look like, led my academic research and my own experience of being working class and growing up in a family economically reliant on industrial work.
I start about half way through. Scott discusses a brilliant bigger picture, global perspective in the first half.
I talk about my research with coal mining communities in South Wales, the Skyline project in and round Treherbert and some of the latest thinking on working class environmentalism and why we need to be led by the workers and communities who live and work in the systems that need to change. I discuss why climate and environmental justice need sot be distributional, procedural and restorative.
Link here: https://cat.org.uk/past-webinars/climate-justice-a-just-transition/