Posted on 09/03/2017 6:02:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, to not ask questions about climate change is indeed dumb, as Senator Sanders pointed out.
It is dumber to not also question the current global economic system and policies perpetuating racial inequalities. The conversation must shift toward climate justice.
Climate justice explicitly confronts basic inequalities: the world’s biggest polluters are not those directly affected by climate change. The big polluters are also the biggest “winners” in this economic system. It is no coincidence that higher climate vulnerability communities are largely communities of color and disenfranchised communities within the Global South.
To achieve climate justice requires making sure that communities most directly affected are directly involved in discussions, as well as solutions.
Just as it’s important to not see Harvey as somehow isolated or exceptional, we need to make the connections, confronting particular, local, contemporary outbursts of white supremacy while addressing the bigger picture.
We must hear, understand – and heed – the voices of fenceline communities in Houston, Haitian families most affected by Matthew, indigenous peoples, hunters and gatherers, family farmers, rural workers, pastoralists, and fisherfolk, among others. The knowledge of frontline communities is crucial to a cooler climate and a more just global economic system.
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Anthropologist Mark Schuller has three dozen scholarly publications on NGOs, globalization, disasters, and gender in Haiti. Schuller wrote or co-edited seven books, including Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti and co-directed documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy. Recipient of the Margaret Mead Award, Schuller is chair of the Lambi Fund of Haiti.
Pure BS.
What’s “foregrounding” ?
The money we pay to the UN probably funds the salaries of these two yahoos to put out this claptrap.
But, but Leonard Nimoy told me of a coming ice age on this episode of In Search Of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_861us8D9M
Ah so this is the end game.
Get the panic going and then blame the capitalists for being least hurt. Chicken Little ought to have thought of this? The sky is falling and those dastardly farmers don’t care.
If I remember right the Clintons promised to fix Haiti. WTF is a solidarity activist?
Something like Cloward Piven
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Lol. I was telling my kids about the ice age hysteria of the 70s just yesterday. And acid rain too.
“Climate justice” is the new game for the Marxist warmers. I guess this means San Diego needs to redistribute its wealth to Minneapolis.
There we have it folks, today’s talking points from the left will be all about climate because everything else has flamed out. What is especially gratifying is they are finally starting to distance themselves from AntiFA but only to those who are creating the violence and making justifications for who they say are those who don’t. Trying the meme that most of them are for good.
BullCrud! One does not exist without the other. What will be interesting is how the law suits currently working their way to focusing the real culprits, the leftist politicians directing the police stand-downs along with the direct moves like San Jose to light.
Is Lambi the plural of Lamb?
If you have got lots of money, you can afford to live on a hill which would be far above the boundaries of the flood plain. If you like to live on beach front property you might have to worry about a tidal wave. And if you are a greedy land developer you might be able to convince the politicians to let you build lots of houses in the flood plain areas to make lots of money. How is any of this factual information to be considered new information? Flood plains should be for golf courses, peach trees, open space, and summer gardens. Not for houses.
Since they mention climate justince and hurricane Matthew, I’m surprised they didn’t bring up the massive rip-off of the Haitian people perpetrated by the Clinton Foundation.
Seems odd. /s
Bureacratese for “get out yer wallet”!
Climate change at it is known today is nothing but a scheme to bilk the American taxpayer into funding globalization.
I have a feeling that “climate justice” can be made to mean anything they want it to,WHEN they want it to. To me “climate justice” could mean Hurricane Harvey hitting D.C. instead of Houston.
Wow - and for all their large amount of work in Haiti, Haiti has progressed so much hasn’t it. /sarc
And studying “gender” in Haiti? What in the heck does that mean? A large % of Haitian people have unidentifiable genitalia, or they have a very large % of cross dressers and “transgender” persons??
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