Today we’re with Karen Igou, who helped lead a week-long event over the Christmas holiday called OccupyBiden, a 24/7 outdoors Climate Justice Occupation within a mile of President Biden’s house in Wilmington, DE.

I found this interesting…that such a demonstration would be held targeting Biden, especially considering the harm done by his predecessor, Donald Trump, with his actions that were rooted in the denial of climate change. After all, Biden has been working to reverse many of those actions.

However, some 200 demonstrators from 10 states participated in the OccupyBiden event, concerned that the Biden administration is more talk than action when it comes to taking action to counteract the forces of climate change, and they contend that some of Biden's actions actually have been harmful.

"We are not OK with politics as usual running things," Igou says. "It's not working. We are going in the wrong direction. At least we’re trying to address our crisis. We’re trying to wake people up. We’re trying to get the voices of the people unified to take care of our one and only planet. Our own president has said that we are in a Code Red existential crisis."

She adds, "It’s madness. It’s lunacy to destroy the very part of the ecosystem that make it work. No other species has ever done what we’re doing, which is destroying our own home. We’re literally committing ecocide and it’s madness."

Igou dedicates her life, and her business, a farm-to-table grocery, to fighting the climate crisis. She suggests many ways during our interview that you can also get involved to save Mother Earth.
Photo by Ray Bailey.