What would light up communities that have the most to gain is the idea that this [climate crisis] could be used as a tool for justice long-denied. When I say that this is the unfinished business of liberation, I mean the great liberation movements of the 20th century that won partial victory but lost on the economic front again and again. Yeah, you got the vote, but you got shitty schools, and shitty services, and no public transit. Could the response to climate change bring that transit, build better schools and revitalize the public sphere – or vitalize it for the first time? That, to me, is truly exciting. There is this sort of discourse now in the environmental community, We have to stop scaring people. I think thats bullshit. But the idea that we should just let go of the fear, because people are tired of being scared? I have no idea who thought of that terrible idea. We need fear and hope in equal measure. We absolutely should be scared. But fear alone will not mobilize people, or it will mobilize them in scary ways. I think a lot of us respond well to deadlines. And were on a deadline. This is what the climate scientists have been screaming about for 18 years, and now its like, Okay. Times up.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:22:08 +0000
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