Therefore, their plan calls for both the “divestment away from the criminalizing, caging, and harming of human beings AND divestment away from the exploitative and extractive violence of fossil fuels” to free up money that can be reinvested in our communities. We are three times more likely to be exposed to and die from air pollutants than our white counterparts. For example, prior to leaving office, President Obama along with Congress unfortunately lifted a 40-year ban on oil exports, which increased oil and gas extraction across the United States, making Texas and Louisiana top global exporters of oil and gas — a 21st century liquid “gold rush”.
Technology has become a delusional crutch that society leans on in the face of any crisis. “For example, even though Texas is a world producer and exporter of oil and gas, we have also carved out a niche as a leader in renewable energy, and I would give a lot of the credit to the frontline communities and the local governments for these shifts.”. New York City in the Time of COVID: Tragedy and Farce, Earth at the “Crossroads:” Finding Our Way in a Time of Extirpation, Assange on Trial: Special Administrative Measures, Unreliable Assurances and Espionage, Trump Slaps California With Anti-Environmental Plan for Point Reyes National Seashore, Twelve Years in a Town that Supported Trump, The Rise of Christian Nationalism in America, A Manifesto for Our Times: the Challenge to Abolish Systemic Racism, A COVID Primer for Your Trump-Loving Friends. And those defunct wind-turbines and solar arrays at the end of their short lives?
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For example, Indigenous people and communities, under the banner of the Red Nation, released the “Red Deal” late last year, which re-centers First Nations—and their knowledge—in the fight against climate change and explicitly calls for the end of fossil fuel consumption. “Let’s be perfectly honest — all of the victories and changes that have taken place in frontline communities have come from the grassroots, Indigenous communities and other communities of color,” Martina Cartwright, board president of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) tells ESSENCE. If they are not talking about climate or environmental justice and vulnerable populations, then that’s not someone who you’re going to want in office. We’ll recycle them!, says the GND. You don’t have to be a technical expert to provide public comment and other input on an environmental issue that’s going to affect your life, but you better believe that your input is necessary right now,” Hollis tells ESSENCE. For all intents and purposes, it is beyond fair for us all to concede that climate change is real and can be directly attributed to human activity, in particular corporate and U.S. military activities. AOC goes off after critics mock Green New Deal, Avlon: Proud Boys see Trump's comments as an endorsement, Undecided voter reacts to debate: I'd consider not voting, Vendor at Trump rally says he's seen uptick in QAnon merchandise demand, Trump says he doesn't know right-wing group he name-checked at debate, Biden: Trump's conduct was a national embarrassment, Van Jones describes the debate moment that upset him, Avlon: What Trump said sounds like a call for voter intimidation, Michael Cohen on Trump's taxes: The facts really do matter here, What it means if Donald Trump loses the election, Navarro: Trump paid Stormy Daniels more than he paid in taxes, See how voters in Georgia react to Trump tax news, NYT: WH pressured CDC to downplay risks of reopening schools, Could Trump go to jail over his taxes? Al Sharpton’s Debt, The Rolling Constitutional-Fascist Coup in the World’s Most Dangerous Nation, Nichole Stepehns, Administrative Assistant.
Signed by over 100 signatories, this suite of policy proposals is both an addendum to a Congressional-version of the Green New Deal, and aimed specifically at the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, which collectively would constitute the 5th largest economy in the world. And, over the past three years, the anti-science Trump administration has rolled back numerous environmental protections, disbanded scientific advisory panels and task forces (including a task force created by the Obama administration after the Ebola outbreak to prepare for the next pandemic), as well as scrubbed the mere mention of “climate change” from many federal websites. Building on the work of many brave souls – researchers and ordinary folks alike – The REAL Green New Project is advancing a realistic alternative to the GND. The Green New Deal is a four part program for moving America quickly out of crisis into a secure, sustainable future. Not so easy when, after decades, there is yet no viable recycling method that works, is scalable, isn’t a net energy sink, and is cost effective. Michael Moore’s recent Planet of the Humans – now with almost 10 million views – punched a hole straight through the logic of the GND, and the film’s success can be measured by the howls of protest and attempts at censorship by those in its crosshairs. As an example, the GND calls for massive investments into renewable energy systems and sustainable manufacturing and agricultural practices to transition the United States quickly to 100% renewable energy and cut pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, while hiring and training millions of Americans. Don’t elect anyone into office unless you hear that their plan has actions in it to address [climate change]. The Green New Deal offers remedies to address the intertwined issues of economic inequality, labor abuses, and environmental and climate crisis. And, more importantly, we should recognize that we already have the people power and the Green-Red New Deal blueprint needed to stop climate change and protect Black communities and Black life post-coronavirus. Race, not class, is the strongest predictor of whether someone will be overburdened by environmental pollution, climate disasters and other hazards. Its core premises are: The climate crisis is a just one symptom of our overshoot crisis – too many people consuming and polluting too much on a finite planet.
With fires raging across the western United States – leaving in their wake human and wildlife death, upended lives, and what looks like apocalyptic Martian wastelands – renewed calls for a Green New Deal (GND) are intensifying. “We have witnessed the utter decimation of the environmental protections that did exist prior to this administration,” Hollis says. And if private one-on-one conversations or the accumulation of online articles are any indication, people (including many you wouldn’t suspect) are even waking up to the macro-problem of overpopulation, a topic becoming less and less taboo with each passing day. By virtue of racist zoning laws and permitting/siting decisions, Black people, along with other people of color, are more likely to live by landfills, incinerators, sewage treatment facilities, recyclers, power plants and chemical industries, despite their income.
In the Gulf Coast region, which is the epicenter of the oil and gas boom, frontline communities have banded together to target the Green New Deal back down towards state governments. Thanking the Founding Fathers for Our Constitutional Mess? It’s unfathomably short-sighted to advocate for a wholesale switch-out of energy regimes for all of civilization without fully understanding whether the new one will even work. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went off during a House Financial Services Committee meeting after Rep. Sean Duffy mocked the effort of the "Green New Deal… So, we can see that the same groups of people at risk from COVID-19 are also at risk from the adverse health effects of climate change.”. We cannot solve the problems caused by unsustainable techno-industrialism with more unsustainable techno-industrialism. The secret is out. Megan Seibert is Executive Director of The Real Gree New Deal Project and Dr. William Rees is a bio-ecologist, ecological economist, and former Director and Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. And, don’t think that degrees or more zeros on your paycheck will automatically save you.
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But with these renewed calls comes a renewed responsibility to speak honestly about our climate crisis and what a truly appropriate response might look like. On the whole, however, I think David Bernstein's, Only One Place of Redress, is an even more devastating critique of New Deal racist policies. David Correia, Matteo MacDermant, and Ernesto Longa, Enough is Enough: It’s Time for a Real Green New Deal, Biden’s Foreign Policy Advisors Show Loyalty to Israel, Defense Contractors, How Ecuador’s Democracy is Being Suffocated, Democracy: It’s Not Dark Yet, But It’s Getting There, Fight over the Mediterranean: France’s Proxy War and the Budding Turkish-Russian Alliance, Beware Self-Serving Messengers: Logging Will Not Prevent Destructive Wildfires, Bt Cotton in India is a GMO Template for a ‘Monumental Irreversible Catastrophe’, Housing Affordability and Insecurity Before and During the Pandemic. Too much information is too readily available for the GND’s naïve, short-sighted narrative to prevail much longer.
These new migratory patterns will bring new human populations, who may carry but be immune to certain microbes, into contact with one another as people are forced to leave rural areas for urban centers and developing nations for wealthier ones in search of shelter, food, medicine and paid work.
Unfortunately, no U.S. president within the last few decades has made climate change a top priority, instead propping up dubious solutions, such as renewable natural gas and “clean coal,” to address our nation’s fossil fuel addiction.
Fossil fuels are a one-time inheritance. A proud two-time HBCU alumna, she writes about the intersections of race, food, the environment and public health. The Red Deal was crafted by community members, Native people, young people, and poor people. “And, the [Center for Disease Control] has identified that people, who have serious heart conditions, chronic lung disease or moderate-to-severe asthma, as high risk populations for [COVID-19]. Roughly 75% of all new, emerging, or re-emerging diseases affecting humans can be traced back to wild animals, which are being displaced from their habitats by corporate and military-driven deforestation, underground wildlife markets, encroaching residential and commercial development, factory farms, and fracking — a drilling technique to extract oil and gas deep underground. Where Does the Democratic Party Stand on War, Peace, and International Relations? We dare hope that there is now enough momentum for a new wave of sober understanding to uproot and replace the withering old perpetual-growth-through-technology paradigm. It’s a form of denial that helps us avoid the hard work of critical self-analysis. Activists participate in a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.