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Climate Change Isn’t Just About the Planet
The Nation ^ | February 8, 2018 | By Leehi Yona

Posted on 02/08/2018 7:23:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

... Climate change isn’t just about the planet. It’s about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and environmental. It’s about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious freedom. I know this interconnectedness, and fervently believed in it when I wrote my initial essay submission last year.

However, in this moment, I find myself unable to think of climate change on its own. When Trump’s policy is climate destruction, it doesn’t take place in silos.

If anything has changed in my mind since last year, it is that my connection to so many struggles for social justice are even more strongly at the forefront.

And yet—to know that your work is inextricably linked to other fights for equality, and then to see the flood of battles headed our way: How on Earth do we keep from drowning?

We must build resilience, physical as well as social, and spiritual.

When I think about resilience, I think, as always, about the young people on the front lines of climate change. I think about my friends, my generation, those who refuse to accept the present for what it is, but see the future for what it could be. I think about the Sunrise movement, a response by young people to Trump and climate change. This group is talented, determined, and resilient, developing a new strategy to mobilize communities into political action on climate.

I would be lying if I said that I am very hopeful these days; after all, there are many reasons to choose to despair. However, when I hear about how—as we young climate organizers knew—young generations are rising up to Donald Trump, to the deafness of politicians, and to the climate crisis, I decide to be hopeful.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; communism; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fruit. Cake.


21 posted on 02/08/2018 7:47:55 AM PST by moovova
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, it is about money, power, control and using the emotional argument of “we are all going to DIE!!!” to get young, impressionable people to blindly follow.

JoMa


22 posted on 02/08/2018 7:50:16 AM PST by joma89
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out”

~ David Horowitz
23 posted on 02/08/2018 7:51:52 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She reminds us all of why they call people “watermelons” who spout Global Warmist propaganda. Green on the outside, red on the inside.


24 posted on 02/08/2018 7:52:55 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More proof (if any was needed) that the climate change crap is 99% politics and 1% science.


25 posted on 02/08/2018 7:57:34 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” Climate change isn’t just about the planet. It’s about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and environmental. It’s about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious freedom. “

Welcome to leftist ‘intersectionality’. In short, it means you must believe everything they say and if you disagree with anything, you’re an evil Drumpf-loving Hitler Nazi.


26 posted on 02/08/2018 7:58:13 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s a great relief to have an Administration that doesn’t take this sort of deranged babbling seriously.


27 posted on 02/08/2018 7:58:19 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Right Brother

The other one you see constantly uttered by postmodernists is “intersectionality”.


28 posted on 02/08/2018 8:01:13 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear Leehi,

Learn a trade.


29 posted on 02/08/2018 8:03:07 AM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sad to see such obsession with complete crap.


30 posted on 02/08/2018 8:04:42 AM PST by Bayan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

31 posted on 02/08/2018 8:07:20 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Personal Responsibility

LGBTQIA? This group continues to exclude necrophiliacs. Why are they necrophiliaphobes?


32 posted on 02/08/2018 8:08:28 AM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: z3n

“February changes justice and evil may do profit to unborn planets. The seeds of interbrededness forcefully smile great happy bon-bons into bloom. And all will be well in the garden.”

Makes about as much sense as this gobbledygook-sniffer from Canada makes. Some poor taxpayer somewhere got ripped off when this confused young woman matriculated at some intellectual-$&!+&@\e college north of the border.


33 posted on 02/08/2018 8:09:05 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Leehi Yona completed a two-year Diplôme d’études collégiales in Integrated Arts and Sciences”


How does she do that? You mean she learnt how to paint like Vermeer, solve differential equations like Laplace and launch rockets like von Braun, all in two year?
Any man should date her, if true.


34 posted on 02/08/2018 8:12:36 AM PST by miniTAX (a)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s basically a homely high school sophomore girl whose mush inside her head has been shaped by environazis and SJW at the local madrasses, and who wants to impart her deep delusional wisdom on the world.


35 posted on 02/08/2018 8:16:43 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We need to ban all immigration from Canada. They keep exporting their ignorant waste of DNA like this person to the USA.


36 posted on 02/08/2018 8:18:06 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...Integrated Arts and Sciences..."

Gee, what on EARTH is THAT kind of major? Hmmm...let me guess...

37 posted on 02/08/2018 8:29:43 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Vehmgericht

“LGBTQIA? This group continues to exclude necrophiliacs. Why are they necrophiliaphobes?”

It’s LGBTQIA+. You missed the plus. So she’s got you covered.


38 posted on 02/08/2018 8:39:00 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

People like Ms. Yona surely represent the bottom of the barrel. It’s impossible to get any lower.


39 posted on 02/08/2018 8:40:33 AM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trying to bolster a failing “climate change” initiative by conjuring the moral outrage that brainlessly characterizes the entire shopping list of Marxist-Leninist, sorry...”liberal” causes, are we? Hell, the Occupy movement has abandoned its war on Wall St., effortlessly switching tack to become another shrill panicky voice for (yawn) global warming, after having had its range of attention nutted and dispersed by that same litany of pagan Druid tribal incantations, so why not stiffen their dongers with a little “coalition building”?


40 posted on 02/08/2018 9:08:56 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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