which is always been the case for people of color, journalists around the world, they are the only people who can talk about their humanity. so why that mainstream media complex is saying, we do not believe you. you are not telling the truth. nothing that they, say nothing that so when i see these people, when they raise their dead children before cameras, i have so much, it s got fronting. i ve been to palestine myself. i honestly look at them, and i start, i pray for them. and i look at them and say, no matter how hard you try, there is a larger media network that is going to look at your baby, those dead children, the way they look at the children and the people who i was helping in ukraine. until we do with the racial dynamic of what s at play here, be honest, it s not going to change. thank you, my friend. and reporter: independent journalist terrell jermaine starr s is independent journalist and founder of block diplomatic and has an official youtube channel for s
more billion dollar climate related disasters than ever before, with 28 disastrous costing at least one billion dollars each, totaling nearly 100 billion dollars. you may remember, or you may have experienced the relentless heat wave in the southwest last summer, or the devastating and deadly wildfires in maui, hawaii, which killed more than 100 people, or the deadly flash flooding across the country from california, to vermont, or any of the exceptionally strong storms like hurricane adalja. but as climate scientists have reminded me here on the show, climate doom-ism is a danger in itself. so it s important to keep in mind that while 2023 smashed some pretty grim climate records, last year, we also saw some encouraging steps in the right direction. we took great strides forward and developing our nations clean energy development and deployment. we saw the biden administration launch the american climate core, which would train and employ young people in clean energy, conservation, an