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By : 26 febrero, 2023. By : 26 febrero, 2023. This is a place where one resident says, Its easier to buy a gun than a tomato. One epidemiologist concludes that 3,200 people die each year from preventable illnesses in such Chicago neighborhoods. No MPAA rating. Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, Author, Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and Practice'Cooked is a jolting reminder of the tragedy, and a scathing indictment of the social conditions that allowed so many to die - with the overwhelming majority of victims being minorities, the elderly, the poorFor those who don't know the story: You need to see this movie.' Why I selected this filmThroughout the film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, filmmaker Judith Helfand argues that there is an inextricable connection between environmental injustice and racism as she explores the impact of the 1995 Chicago heat wave that caused hundreds of deaths. The film questions existing policy as it explores a slow-motion disaster that continues to disrupt and shorten the lives of Chicago residents in neighborhoods like Englewood, a district ravaged by pernicious poverty, social isolation, and racism. Menu. Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Professor, Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University, Author, Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina'This film is searing, smart and insightfulThe film asks important questions with humor, humility, and humanity. Webcooked: survival by zip code transcript. [laughs]00:22:21.923 --> 00:22:23.839- Here you go right here!00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:27.54900:22:27.549 --> 00:22:28.839- Turning it back off now.00:22:28.839 --> 00:22:31.839- Why y'all wantto turn it off for?00:22:32.382 --> 00:22:35.090[indistinct chatter]00:22:37.715 --> 00:22:44.42300:22:46.274 --> 00:22:47.523- A decade afterthe heat wave,00:22:47.523 --> 00:22:50.107Eric Klinenberg was stilltrying to get people00:22:50.107 --> 00:22:53.439to learn the core lessonof that disaster.00:22:53.439 --> 00:22:56.107- Ten years ago,more than 700 Chicagoans00:22:56.107 --> 00:22:56.982died in the heat wave,00:22:56.982 --> 00:22:59.439but you say that's notreally the entire story?00:22:59.439 --> 00:23:01.940What you wanted to knowwere the underlying00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:03.857social, human dimensionsto this, right?00:23:03.857 --> 00:23:04.982- That's right,we have this term,00:23:04.982 --> 00:23:07.439a natural disaster,that we're all familiar with.00:23:07.439 --> 00:23:08.731There's certainlynothing natural00:23:08.731 --> 00:23:09.481about the way they died.00:23:09.481 --> 00:23:13.107What I'm more concerned aboutis our collective failure00:23:13.107 --> 00:23:15.940to addressthat everyday crisis,00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:18.149the disaster in slow motion,if you will.00:23:18.149 --> 00:23:20.940And my biggest concern nowis that if we refuse00:23:20.940 --> 00:23:22.690to come to termswith this crisis,00:23:22.690 --> 00:23:26.232we'll doom ourselvesto experience it again.00:23:26.232 --> 00:23:28.107[dramatic music]00:23:28.107 --> 00:23:29.898- And we did.00:23:29.898 --> 00:23:32.065Just six weeksafter that interview,00:23:32.065 --> 00:23:35.523the crisis we refused to cometo terms with in Chicago00:23:35.523 --> 00:23:41.232repeated itself in New Orleansand all along the Gulf Coast.00:23:41.232 --> 00:23:45.64800:23:45.648 --> 00:23:48.731Like millions of others,I spent that Labor Day weekend00:23:48.731 --> 00:23:54.315watching whole neighborhoodsdisappear underwater.00:23:55.731 --> 00:23:57.439- We're gonna talkabout something else00:23:57.439 --> 00:23:58.523before the show's over too,00:23:58.523 --> 00:24:00.857and that's the big elephantin the room:00:24:00.857 --> 00:24:03.440the race and economic classof most of the victims,00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.065which the media hasn'tdiscussed much at all.00:24:07.439 --> 00:24:11.648- What had seemed to me to bea one-time tragedy in Chicago00:24:11.648 --> 00:24:15.690all at once becamean appalling trend.00:24:15.690 --> 00:24:17.898And this movie,which started out00:24:17.898 --> 00:24:20.439being about onespecific heat disaster,00:24:20.439 --> 00:24:24.773turned into something morecomplicated and uncomfortable,00:24:24.773 --> 00:24:27.357about the impactof generations' worth00:24:27.357 --> 00:24:29.523of racism and denial.00:24:29.523 --> 00:24:32.523- What's the guesstimate costof rebuilding those levees?00:24:32.523 --> 00:24:37.731- The bill is $2.9 billion,which will give us--00:24:37.731 --> 00:24:39.274send us a long wayto, you know,00:24:39.274 --> 00:24:40.606repairing and upgradingthe levees,00:24:40.606 --> 00:24:42.315making them realCategory 3 protection,00:24:42.315 --> 00:24:45.439which apparently they weren't,we learned the hard way.00:24:45.439 --> 00:24:51.43900:24:51.439 --> 00:24:52.439- Back in Chicago,00:24:52.439 --> 00:24:54.815where it was predictedthat by 2050,00:24:54.815 --> 00:24:57.190the weather would feel morelike Baton Rouge,00:24:57.190 --> 00:25:01.107Mayor Daley inaugurated hisofficial climate action plan,00:25:01.107 --> 00:25:05.023starting witha $2.5-million project00:25:05.023 --> 00:25:07.523built on top of City Hall.00:25:07.523 --> 00:25:08.773- So what you'll seebehind me here00:25:08.773 --> 00:25:11.565is actually the green roofon City Hall.00:25:11.565 --> 00:25:14.023We're 12 storiesabove the city,00:25:14.023 --> 00:25:16.232and as you can tell,it's kind of like a prairie.00:25:16.232 --> 00:25:17.523I mean, you can hearthe crickets.00:25:17.523 --> 00:25:18.940You can see the butterflies.00:25:18.940 --> 00:25:21.648There are birdsthat live up here.00:25:21.648 --> 00:25:24.357So what we've done here--we've created00:25:24.357 --> 00:25:26.439an urban heat island map.00:25:26.439 --> 00:25:28.107We can see the hot spots,00:25:28.107 --> 00:25:30.232and then we plant treesin those areas,00:25:30.232 --> 00:25:33.149'cause one mature treehas the air-conditioning effect00:25:33.149 --> 00:25:36.399of 12 room-sizeair-conditioners.00:25:36.399 --> 00:25:41.898So these strategies providereal cooling of the city.00:25:41.898 --> 00:25:49.23200:25:54.399 --> 00:25:58.399- You know, we're prettyfar away from City Hall.00:25:58.690 --> 00:26:01.898You know, I don't knowabout any rooftop gardens00:26:01.898 --> 00:26:03.940out here.00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:07.31500:26:07.315 --> 00:26:08.731This is the blockthat I lived on00:26:08.731 --> 00:26:14.439from the time I was 1 or 2years old till I was about 14.00:26:14.439 --> 00:26:18.439Used to be a church herethat burned down.00:26:18.439 --> 00:26:21.065Used to be a house here.00:26:22.439 --> 00:26:26.565This house was next doorto where we lived,00:26:26.565 --> 00:26:29.481and we lived right here.00:26:29.982 --> 00:26:35.439And this whole blockwas full of houses.00:26:35.439 --> 00:26:39.06500:26:39.065 --> 00:26:40.190Summer day like today,00:26:40.190 --> 00:26:43.149when I was growing uparound here,00:26:43.149 --> 00:26:46.274would be full of people,kids playing,00:26:46.274 --> 00:26:48.815adults comingto and from work.00:26:48.815 --> 00:26:52.357It was justa vibrant place to be.00:26:54.023 --> 00:26:56.439There were two movie theaters.00:26:56.439 --> 00:26:58.481There was a Sears store.00:26:58.481 --> 00:27:00.065Hillman's grocery store.00:27:00.065 --> 00:27:02.399I used to get the listfrom my mom,00:27:02.399 --> 00:27:05.690and I'd walk up hereand get whatever she wanted.00:27:05.690 --> 00:27:08.98200:27:08.982 --> 00:27:13.023It's just beenan incredible 50-plus years00:27:13.023 --> 00:27:17.232of watching what happensto a community.00:27:17.232 --> 00:27:18.98200:27:18.982 --> 00:27:21.439If the heat wave happenedwhen I was growing up,00:27:21.439 --> 00:27:25.481I think the outcome wouldhave been a lot different.00:27:25.481 --> 00:27:27.773When it got really hot,people would sleep00:27:27.773 --> 00:27:31.357on the back porchor sleep in the park.00:27:31.565 --> 00:27:33.690People felt much safer.00:27:33.940 --> 00:27:35.481I mean,imagine going from feeling00:27:35.481 --> 00:27:36.857like you can go sleepin the park00:27:36.857 --> 00:27:41.274to feeling like you can't evenput a fan in your window.00:27:46.023 --> 00:27:47.440- Yeah.00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:51.399Just acres of vacant land.00:27:51.606 --> 00:27:54.274Acres of potential.00:28:00.399 --> 00:28:02.439- Orrin told methat much of the vacant land00:28:02.439 --> 00:28:05.023on the South and West Sidesof the city00:28:05.023 --> 00:28:08.523can be traced backto another map00:28:08.523 --> 00:28:09.439this one created00:28:09.439 --> 00:28:12.149by the Federal HousingAdministration00:28:12.149 --> 00:28:13.439in 1940.00:28:13.439 --> 00:28:15.898The neighborhoodswhere black people had settled00:28:15.898 --> 00:28:19.439were shaded in redand declared ineligible00:28:19.439 --> 00:28:21.815for federally insured loans.00:28:21.815 --> 00:28:24.023The only waypeople could buy a home00:28:24.023 --> 00:28:27.815was through a practicecalled contract buying.00:28:28.898 --> 00:28:30.731- White speculatorsbought homes,00:28:30.731 --> 00:28:33.232then resold themto black families00:28:33.232 --> 00:28:35.439for two or three timestheir value,00:28:35.439 --> 00:28:37.857but the black familydidn't own the house00:28:37.857 --> 00:28:40.857until they fully paid it off.00:28:40.982 --> 00:28:46.315- If I have you in a contract,and things go along00:28:46.315 --> 00:28:47.439and you get laid offfrom your job00:28:47.439 --> 00:28:49.439and you miss a month,you could do it on one month--00:28:49.439 --> 00:28:51.731or miss two months--then you're out of that house.00:28:51.731 --> 00:28:53.982I evict you,and then I can recontract00:28:53.982 --> 00:28:56.857that same houseto another family.00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:00.190- Most people had to worktwo or three jobs00:29:00.190 --> 00:29:01.357to meet the payments.00:29:01.357 --> 00:29:05.815Often they couldn't affordto maintain the houses,00:29:05.815 --> 00:29:11.190so a lot of those structuresneeded to be torn down.00:29:11.439 --> 00:29:13.773- So when the federalgovernment made it illegal00:29:13.773 --> 00:29:16.565to give mortgagesin the black communities,00:29:16.565 --> 00:29:17.940it was a political decision00:29:17.940 --> 00:29:21.023to disinvestfrom those communities.00:29:21.357 --> 00:29:22.773You have banksmaking a decision:00:29:22.773 --> 00:29:24.940"Your house isn't worthreplacing the windows,00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:28.648"so we're not gonna give youa loan to replace your windows.00:29:28.648 --> 00:29:30.439"We're not gonna giveanyone a loan00:29:30.439 --> 00:29:32.357to buy your house from you.
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