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The Capitol Insurrection Shows White Nationalism Is the Biggest Threat to the Climate
White nationalism gave us the climate emergency. Now, it’s our biggest obstacle.
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We all watched in horror this week as hate-filled people marched into the core of our country’s most sacred spaces.
This seditious act wasn’t a spontaneous lapse of security or the flailing throes of a defeated president. It was a calculated attack on our shared future.
2020 was the hottest year in recorded history. Every single square inch of the continental United States was warmer than normal. Our country, and our nation, are in a climate emergency. Not only do white nationalists understand that, they embrace it.
This country was founded on the exploitation and extermination of non-white people who lived together with Nature, not in opposition to it. Over the past five hundred years, that racist underpinning has continued to…
