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Topic Title: Road to Green New Deal is paved with unity Topic Summary: Created On: 04/20/2019 06:28 AM |
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http://www.peoplesworld.org/ar...s-paved-with-unity/or
"Of course, there are conflicts. Though there are organizations like the BlueGreen Alliance, disagreements between some labor and environmental activists persist. It can be difficult for working-class Oklahomans with oil jobs or West Virginians employed by the coal industry to see the personal benefits of standing behind the environmental movement. How does one go about rectifying that? "It starts with the effort to have both sides listen to one another," said Brodine. The coal industry, of course, is no friend to workers, as miners with black lung disease can attest. "Coal companies have not only funded climate denialism, but they've also sought to win over workers and communities dependent upon coal by getting them to believe the coal industry has their best interests at heart when that's clearly not true. We have to split the coal companies from those communities that depend on fossil fuel jobs. And then we have to replace those jobs - but that's only part of it. It involves job retraining, extended unemployment insurance, and winning those workers over by making them understand that the environmental movement is not their enemy." ------------------------- Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system. In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer". |
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