How to Become a Climate Revolutionary in 2021
If you want to make climate justice part of your New Year’s resolutions, here are some things to get you started
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Our time here on this beautiful planet is so temporary.
If there’s anything that 2020 taught us, it’s that while time is fleeting for everyone, it’s the way society is structured that determines how fleeting it is and for whom. The overlapping tragedies of Covid-19, police brutality, and the climate emergency don’t fall equally on everyone, and it’s up to us to change that system to ensure everyone here gets the chance to thrive that they deserve.
That’s the heart of climate justice.
Our window for the revolutionary repair of our planet’s atmosphere and biosphere — caused by centuries of excesses brought by capitalism, patriarchy, misogyny, imperialism, and racism — is bound by physics. We can (and should!) argue about the best ways to get to a zero-carbon world as quickly as possible, but we…
