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Social justice includes climate justice and social issues are very much interconnected with issues of environmental sustainability. Consider the appropriation o
by kiliantics 6y ago
Social justice includes climate justice and social issues are very much interconnected with issues of environmental sustainability. Consider the appropriation of lands from indigenous peoples and destruction of its natural ecosystems to install monocultures for profit. Consider the fact that poor people must buy cheap disposable stuff again and again because they can't afford to buy long-lasting, more sustainable goods which have become too expensive for profit-seeking industries to produce at scale. Consider that urban sprawl was largely a result of racialised segregation and that the ubiquity of environmentally destructive vehicles and road systems was encouraged in no small part by the desire of certain classes of people to distance themselves from others (or others from them).
- qPM9l3XJrF 6y agoThe most important climate legislation has bipartisan support: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how-to-decarbonize-america-and-the-world/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/15/how-to-decarbonize-america... Framing everything in terms of past injustices turns what should be a bipartisan issue into a partisan one. We need less infighting and more creative collaborative problem-solving.