Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty. In this era of catastrophic climate change, why is it easier for some to imagine the end of fossil fuels than settler colonialism? To imagine green economies, carbon-free wind and solar energy, and electric, bullet-train utopias but not the return of Indigenous lands? Why is it easier to imagine the …
New York’s Public Power Bill Could Be a Model for the Rest of the Country. NY State Build Public Renewables Act sets path for faster, cheaper, better decarbonization.
The New York State Build Public Renewables Act. “We could see, for instance, federal money going to states so that they could set one up themselves so that they can build out public renewable energy in their states, bring down the cost, make it accountable to the people, and bring down energy poverty at the same time.” Dharna Noor 5/13/21, Gizmodo …
Resisting the Everyday Violence of Colonial Extractivsm
By Michael Wilson Becerril, ROAR Magazine.May 25, 2021 | STRATEGIZE! In The Face Of Environmental Collapse, Deepening Inequalities And Capitalism In Crisis, Resisting Violence Requires Challenging Its Colonial Constructions. In many cases, the state legitimizes violence,” said the lawyer, professor and researcher on socio-environmental conflicts, Patricia Urteaga Crovetto, as we sat in her university office in Lima, Peru. “People make claims, they knock …
From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy: Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight, by Kate Aronoff
“It’s understandable that people don’t think a transition will be just, because they’ve never seen one play out. Any just transition that looks to transition workers into training for jobs building wind turbines that might exist a hundred or two hundred miles away is a lost cause. I don’t think we deal with the climate crisis at the scale it …
25 key executive actions for Biden, plus Morgan Stanley projection that coal will be replaced in the next 12 yrs
Renewables are expected to replace coal on the U.S. grid by 2033, according to a new report from Morgan Stanley. They project that by 2030, renewables will supply 39 percent of U.S. electricity and 55 percent by 2035. Coal supplied around 20 percent of the nation’s power last year and could rebound to as much as 22 percent in 2021, …
Building a macro-grid connecting East and West, without legislation, if needed
Dec 15, 2020 Forbes, How Biden Can Unleash $7.8 Trillion Investment And Create 6 Million Jobs By Expanding The Grid. Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology by Sarah Spengeman The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to the economy, creating an urgent need to stimulate a sustainable recovery that creates good jobs. A new study shows building a Macro Grid across the …
Just recovery policies
Foundations for a Just Recovery Many of the policy solutions we advocate for a just recovery are cross-cutting by nature. They aim to shift mindsets, cultural norms, how people are treated, how our voices are heard, and how bedrock environmental laws are upheld, creating an overarching structure from which to fight for social, environmental, and economic justice. Honor those whose …
Colonialism is the interplay of dispossession, dependency and oppression
Art Manuel: The Reconciliation Manifesto, 2007 Truth must come before reconciliation Loss of our land that has been the precise cause of our impoverishment Systemic impoverishment is used as a weapon by Canada to keep us too poor and weak to fight back. It is used to bribe and co-opt Indigenous leadership into becoming neo-colonial partners to treat the symptoms …
Black Lives Matter and Gulf South for a GND
The Climate Movement’s Reckoning with Black Lives Matter: For far too long, the climate movement has ignored the needs of the people most impacted by the climate crisis. That’s changing. CAMILLE WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 24, 2020, In These Times BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Environmental justice has never been separate from racial justice, according to Elizabeth Yeampierre, co-chair of the national Climate Justice Alliance and executive director of …
A comprehensive multi-year policy agenda designed to cut carbon pollution fast enough to meet the science, address long-term inequities and build a thriving clean energy economy that reduces pollution
Looking ahead, Climate Solutions has been working with many others to develop a comprehensive multi-year policy agenda designed to cut carbon pollution fast enough to meet the science, address long-term inequities with Black and brown communities and lower income folks, and build a thriving clean energy economy that reduces harmful air and water pollution. While we need dozens of policies …