We can all benefit from listening to underrepresented groups
Amplifying the voices of underrepresented groups is necessary to shift the structural disparities in the construction sector, says AJ editor
Emily Booth
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The RIBA’s first-ever head of diversity and inclusion is compelling and frank in her interview with the AJ’s Ella Jessel (‘I’m a woman, I’m a woman of colour, I’m a menopausal woman – all these different identifiers’).
And the value Ramroop places on the importance of listening is particularly pertinent. Throughout her career she has sought to tell stories from unheard voices, and this approach is one from which the whole sector can benefit.
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By Benjamin Yount
May 12, 2021
If you’ve followed along with our climate change friends, not only is the planet in danger but it is always your fault.
You drive too much, you are too comfortable, you have too many children, you eat too well.
The solution from our climate change compadres always involves pain.
Vox has the latest piece: ‘Biden Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Tackling Our Meat Obsession’
President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle climate change. His major infrastructure program, the American Jobs Plan, is mostly a blueprint for doing just that. It’s exhaustive the summary alone clocks in at 12,000 words and that’s encouraging. But in all those words, something crucial is missing.
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President Joe Biden has a plan
to tackle climate change. His major infrastructure program, the American Jobs Plan, is mostly a blueprint for doing just that.
It’s exhaustive the summary alone clocks in at 12,000 words and that’s encouraging. But in all those words, something crucial is missing.
Nowhere does “meat” get a mention. Likewise, “animal agriculture” appears exactly zero times.
If Biden is serious about staving off climate disaster, our meat system is not something he can afford to ignore. At least14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from animal agriculture. That’s largely because ruminant animals like cows emit a lot of methane, and producing feed requires using energy and clearing forests that would otherwise be trapping carbon.