thot the ST list would also appreciate this framing article. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elan Shapiro <elanshapiro...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:28 AM Subject: [C4SED] Valuable justice-oriented article on climate issues To: C4sed <c4...@googlegroups.com>, building bridgeslist < building-bridges-netw...@googlegroups.com>
We Don’t Need a ‘War’ on Climate Change, We Need a Revolution NYT 10/31/16 I find this this article to be very valuable http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/opinion/we-dont-need-a- war-on-climate-change-we-need-a-revolution.html?smprod= nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0 excerpt: What would winning a “war” against climate change even look like? McKibben suggests a huge mobilization to produce green technologies, solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars. He cites the public seizure and transformation of private factories during World War II that enabled the United States to produce bombers and other instruments that helped win the war. Certainly greener technologies can help, but solar panels won’t purify Flint’s lead-ridden water or lower asthma rates in the Bronx, some of the highest in the country because of the proximity to trucking lanes. Technology alone can’t address the environmental injustice disproportionately confronting minorities. However, if we understand that the enemy is not our physical environment, but the unjust social relations that allow some to gain at the expense of and risk to others, then technological solutions can be a part, but only a part, of the plan. Crucial to this plan is gaining social control over the private, exploitative and even irresponsible direction of the human-nature metabolism. For this reason, Naomi Klein has called for solutions that go beyond the technological. She emphasizes, not just green energy, but also “people power.” Her most recent book and film, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” feature a number of grass-roots movements resisting the forces that threaten people’s relationships with their environment — sometimes even in the name of “green” solutions, such as hydroelectric dam projects. We want to follow Klein’s lead in shifting the conceptual focus from technologies of power to relations of power. -- Elan Shapiro Building Bridges Coalition Frog's Way B&B www.frogsway-bnb.com 607-592-8402 elanshapiro...@gmail.com 211 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 Happiness isn’t something we “find.” It’s what we become as we align our lives with thriving community and life-giving earth.” Frances Moore Lappé, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coalition for Sustainable Economic Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to c4sed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to c4...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
