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  • A Green New Deal architect explains how the protests and climate crisis are connected (only 10.63 years left)

    06/11/2020 5:31:49 PM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Technology Review ^ | 6/11/20 | James Temple
    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...