Team Marine talks climate movement and solutions on KCRW

On Thursday, Sept. 5, KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture host Francis Anderton and producer Avishay Artsy, armed with recording equipment and a microphone, met with the sustainability and environmental club, Team Marine, in I215 at lunch. Four members of the Samo club, Lilly Chertock (’21), Ansel Garcia-Langley (’20), Anastasia Shakhidzhanova (’20) and Isabel Homberg Reissmeier (’21) were interviewed for a segment on solutions for climate change, which aired on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 1:30 p.m. The interview lasted around 30 minutes and students were asked a variety of questions ranging from activist Greta Thurnberg’s work and upcoming climate events to Samo’s roll in the climate movement. The interview is part of the larger Design and Architecture segment, so the interview only comprises about nine minutes of airtime in a 30 minute broadcast. However, the nine minutes were impactful.  “[The segments will explore innovative solutions to addressing climate change,] the messaging around it and how climate change is increasingly coming out of the shadows in a way and becoming a mainstream concern. You’ve got political candidates addressing it. You’ve got companies like Porsche even saying ‘We’re gonna do a segment about how Porsche, classic, very fossil fuel intensive car and they’re bringing about an electric car,” Anderton said.    In addition to exploring climate change, the segment also looked to the international school climate strikes that occured on Sept. 20 and the UN Climate Action Conference on Sept. 21. Andeton also addressed the role of students in the climate crisis.  “We’re seeing teenagers lead the way on a number of social issues so it really is up to the next generation to take the lead and convince the grownups that this is something important and needs to be addressed immediately,” Artsy said. The KCRW team concluded by emphasizing just how much Team Marine is relevant to the issues that they were covering in their segment. “In the interview, we put slight pressure on the school and district to continue supporting us, and to make sustainability education a priority. Hopefully this will yield the desired results,” Chertock said.