Sierra Membership: “We’ll by no means cease local weather change with out ending white supremacy”
Visitor essay by Eric Worrall
h/t CFACT – within the wake of harsh accusations of grasping company collaboration in “Planet of the People“, the Sierra membership seems to be trying to reinvent itself as a racial justice motion.
Racism Is Killing the Planet
The ideology of white supremacy leads the way in which towards disposable individuals and a disposable pure world
BY HOP HOPKINS | JUN eight 2020
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In the course of the avenue protests and marches of the previous two weeks, many individuals carried indicators that learn “Racism Is Killing Us.” It’s no exaggeration to say that racism and white supremacy hurt all of us, as a result of along with robbing us of our humanity, racism can be killing the planet all of us share.
An thought—a long-overdue realization—is rising within the environmental motion. It goes one thing like this: “We’ll by no means cease local weather change with out ending white supremacy.” This argument has entered the out of doors recreation and conservation house because of the management of Black, Indigenous, and different individuals of colour within the local weather justice motion. The thought has taken on new drive as people within the mainstream environmental motion do our greatest to indicate up for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and all of the Black individuals nonetheless residing and topic to police violence.
I do know that lots of people are scuffling with the thought that addressing the environmental crises should contain dismantling white supremacy. At Sierra Membership conferences, some individuals hear me say one thing like that and suppose, “Rattling, preventing local weather change wasn’t laborious sufficient already? Now we’ve to finish racism and white supremacy too? Significantly, man?”
I get that feeling of being overwhelmed. It’s rather a lot to hold. It’s rather a lot to carry. All of us have sufficient to do with out feeling like we’re taking up much more.
However I need to share one other lens from which we are able to view this second. I actually consider in my coronary heart of hearts—after a lifetime of pondering and speaking about these points—that we’ll by no means survive the local weather disaster with out ending white supremacy.
Right here’s why: You may’t have local weather change with out sacrifice zones, and you may’t have sacrifice zones with out disposable individuals, and you may’t have disposable individuals with out racism.
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Learn extra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/racism-killing-planet
Don’t underestimate the creator, Sierra Membership Strategic Partnership Director Hop Hopkins.
Most greens should not very self conscious. They often go away a juicy image someplace of themselves doing one thing silly or wildly hypocritical, like protesting in opposition to fossil gasoline whereas carrying a petroleum plastic jacket.
Hop is completely different. He isn’t somebody who overlooks small particulars.
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