Posted on 06/11/2020 5:31:49 PM PDT by Libloather
Demands for climate action have largely faded into the background as the covid-19 pandemic, the economic meltdown, and widespread protests over police brutality have seized the world’s attention.
But for Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute and one of the architects of the Green New Deal, the issues are inextricably intertwined. You can’t appreciate the real toll of the fossil-fuel sector if you’re not looking at it through the lenses of racial justice, economic inequality, and public health, she says in an interview with MIT Technology Review.
People of color are more likely to live near power plants and other polluting factories, and they suffer higher levels of asthma and greater risks of early death from air pollution. The coronavirus death rate among black Americans is more than twice that of whites. And global warming and factory farming practices will release more deadly pathogens and reshape the range of infectious diseases, Gunn-Wright argued in April in a New York Times op-ed titled “Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming.”
“The people most likely to die from toxic fumes are the same people most likely to die from Covid-19,” she wrote. “It’s like we are watching a preview of the worst possible impacts of the climate crisis roll right before our eyes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at technologyreview.com ...
"You can’t appreciate the real toll of X if you’re not looking at it through the lenses of racial justice, economic inequality, and public health."
The President of her local MENSA chapter, no doubt.
I’m starting to root for “Climate Change” (sic). Maybe it’ll wash this leftist evil off the face of the Earf.
10 Jun: Climate Depot: Al Gore Goes Woke: Links ‘white supremacists’ to ‘climate change’ – Gore’s training will have a ‘sustained emphasis on nexus between racism’ & ‘climate’
by Marc Morano
Gore: “I have been speaking out quite a bit over the last two months on the nexus between racism and climate and COVID-19, and I guess that gave me a feeling that I was addressing these systemic racism issues.”
“We have always included a very heavy part of our curriculum on the nexus between racism and climate. ”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/06/10/gore-goes-woke-links-white-supremacists-to-climate-change-gores-training-will-have-a-sustained-emphasis-on-nexus-between-racism-climate/
10 Jun: Climate Depot: Sierra Club goes full woke: ‘We will never survive the climate crisis without ending white supremacy’ – “When the U.S. pours carbon pollution into the air…that is white supremacy’
by Marc Morano
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/06/10/sierra-club-goes-full-woke-we-will-never-survive-the-climate-crisis-without-ending-white-supremacy-when-the-u-s-pours-carbon-pollution-into-the-air-that-is-white-supremacy/
10 Jun: Climate Depot: Flashback 2015: New Yorker mag: ‘Environmentalism’s Racist History’ – From Sierra Club’s founder Muir to Ehrlich
by Marc Morano
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/06/10/flashback-2015-new-yorker-mag-environmentalisms-racist-history-from-sierra-clubs-founder-muir-to-ehrlich/
The left is having a collective nervous breakdown.
the World Economic Forum’s “THE GREAT RE-SET” set for January 2021 is, in their minds, the great re-set from Donald Trump back to the GLOBALISTS.
World Economic Forum: Global Shapers Community: Partnerships
Accenture, The CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT (AL GORE), P&G, ETC
https://www.globalshapers.org/partnerships
World Economic Forum: Global Shapers Community: The power of youth in action
The Global Shapers Community is a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change.
https://www.globalshapers.org/
3 Jun: World Economic Forum: The Great Reset: A Unique Twin Summit to Begin 2021
by Adrian Monck, Public Engagement
•“The Great Reset” will be the theme of a unique twin summit in January 2021, convened by the World Economic Forum...
•The announcement of the Great Reset is made by HRH The Prince of Wales and Klaus Schwab during a virtual meeting today at 14:30 Central European Summer Time...
This innovative summit will be a very different Annual Meeting, reflecting the spirit of the Great Reset. It will provide a unique opportunity at the beginning of 2021 to bring together the key global government and business leaders in Davos, yet framed within a global multistakeholder summit driven by the younger generation to ensure that the Great Reset dialogue pushes beyond the boundaries of traditional thinking and is truly forward-oriented.
To do so, the World Economic Forum will draw on thousands of young people in more than 400 cities around the world (the Global Shapers Community) who will be interconnected with a powerful virtual hub network to interact with the leaders in Davos...
The announcement of the Great Reset was made by HRH The Prince of Wales and Professor Schwab during a virtual meeting, followed by statements by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.
Their statements were supported by voices from all stakeholder groups of global society, including...
Ma Jun, Chairman, Green Finance Committee, China Society for Finance and Banking, and a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China; Bernard Looney, Chief Executive Officer, BP, United Kingdom;
***Bradford L. Smith, President, Microsoft, USA; and Nick Stern, Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, United Kingdom ETC ETC...
These dialogues are a joint initiative of the World Economic Forum and HRH The Prince of Wales. Contributions to the Great Reset will also be invited through UpLink, the World Economic Forum’s digital platform to crowdsource innovations for the Sustainable Development Goals.
The map below shows the location of Hubs of the World Economic Global Shapers Community: More than 420 Hubs and 11,000 Global Shapers and alumni. MAP
https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/06/the-great-reset-a-unique-twin-summit-to-begin-2021/
***Brad Smith of Microsoft:
Wikipedia: Brad Smith (American lawyer), currently serving as President of Microsoft, concurrently serving as chief legal officer...
In 1986, he joined the Washington, D.C. law firm Covington & Burling...
By 1993 he had become a partner...
Internally (AT MICROSOFT), Smith pushed for diversity within the company’s legal division, making executive bonuses dependent on Microsoft and associated law firms’ increasing employment of racial minority, women, and LGBT employees, and committing pro bono hours for immigrants...
By 2014, Smith was the longest serving member of Microsoft’s top leadership, and considered “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large,” winning plaudits for diplomacy from State Department officials like Anne-Marie Slaughter (Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011 under U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) and Stuart Eizenstat (as of 2018 he has served as a partner and Senior Counsel at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling...From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter’s Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff; President Bill Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1999–2001), Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997–1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration from 1996 to 1997; member of the Atlantic Council’s Board of Directors.)...
He has been on the Code.org board of directors since 2013...and on the Netflix board of directors since 2015...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Smith_(American_lawyer)
3 Jun: WEF: The Great Re-Set: (scroll down) The ‘greenest recovery ever’ - Ma Jun
The post-COVID recovery must be “greener than any of the previous recoveries” said Ma Jun of the China Green Finance Committee.
“The size of stimulus package is very big - bigger than historic numbers” he added, estimating that it amounts to around 20% of GDP in the United States and 8% in China.
Ma Jun had 6 recommendations for the Great Reset:
1. Make sure the percentage of green projects is higher than any other time in history.
2. Ensure projects that can’t be labelled as green are made to follow strict environmental standards.
3. Consumption stimulus needs to be green. Governments could make a list of green consumer goods and these should be given preference on list of consumer subsidies and coupons.
4. Employment generation programmes must be green. Migrant workers have lost jobs. Instead of paying them unemployment benefits we should ask them to plant trees and pay them for that.
5. Governments to consider green bonds as much as possible. This enhances market participation, encouraging the private sector to join too.
6. Any central banks considering using quantitative easing should use green bonds.
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/live-updates/
3 Jun: World Economic Forum: The Great Re-Set: End fossil fuel subsidies and reset the economy for a better world - IMF head
by Ceri Parker, Commissioning Editor, Agenda, World Economic Forum
•World Economic Forum launches the ‘Great Reset’ initiative for a better world after the pandemic.
•The IMF backs the transition to a green economy and calls for an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
Now is the time to end fossil fuel subsidies and create a greener, fairer economy for the future, argued Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF, at a World Economic Forum virtual meeting...
“We now have to step up, use all the strength we have, which in the case of the IMF is $1 trillion,” to ensure that history looks back at “the great reset, not the great reversal,” Georgieva said...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/end-fossil-fuel-subsidies-economy-imf-georgieva-great-reset-climate/
Wondering when the tree huggers would get woke. The Sierra Club, WWF, Friends of the Earth, PETA etc may as well be WHITES ONLY clubs.
3 Jun: WEF: Now is the time for a ‘great reset’
by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
•The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible.
•This is our best chance to instigate stakeholder capitalism - and here’s how it can be achieved...
Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/
Everything about fomenting Communism is related, dodo bird.
4 Jun: Guardian: Pandemic is chance to reset global economy, says Prince Charles
Prince of Wales unveils a five-point plan to stimulate sustainable economic growth
by Phillip Inman
The recovery from the coronavirus crisis represents an opportunity to reset the global economy and prioritise sustainable development without further damaging the planet, Prince Charles said at the opening of a World Economic Forum (WEF) virtual meeting.
Outlining a five-point plan to rebuild economies following a global recession, the 71-year-old prince said the pandemic was the result of a breakdown in the link between humanity and nature that could be corrected by recognising “the interdependence of all living things”...
The five points he outlined were...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/03/pandemic-is-chance-to-reset-global-economy-says-prince-charles
4 Jun: Sky UK (Comcast/NBC Universal): Coronavirus: Prince Charles says we’re paying the price for loss of biodiversity
In an exclusive interview, the prince also described being ill with coronavirus and how he “got away with it quite lightly”.
by Rhiannon Mills - Royal correspondent
(scroll down)
After the Pandemic: Our new world
This week, Dermot Murnaghan is hosting After the Pandemic: Our New World - a series of special live programmes about what our world will be like once the pandemic is over.
We are being joined by some of the biggest names from the worlds of culture, politics, economics, science and technology.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-prince-charles-says-he-was-lucky-after-getting-covid-19-12000035
Does climate cause fentanyl and meth addiction?
Coal is black. How racist of it.
Exactly so -- because all three are political in origin.
We really need to bring back the insane asylums.
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