Santa Monica College What Climate Justice & Environmental Justice Is Paper 3-4 pages essay. 4 paragraphs, one intro, 2 body, and a conclusion. You can fin

Santa Monica College What Climate Justice & Environmental Justice Is Paper 3-4 pages essay. 4 paragraphs, one intro, 2 body, and a conclusion.

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Write an essay about climate justice and environmental justice.

Needs all sources attached at the end of the essay after work cited. Paper #1 DRAFT DUE: Write a three- to four-page essay in which you explain what climate
justice and/or environmental justice is. Use specific examples from two or three of the sources
we have examined thus far to articulate your understanding. You may draw from videos,
readings, and your internet research. In class, we will work on refining your thesis statement and
learning how to correctly cite each source according to MLA format, including both in-text
citations and the works cited page. BRING YOUR SOURCES TO CLASS! Paper copy only.
July 1/8, 2019
The Nation.
say it’s going to be hard. We say that we don’t know that we can
Call for Climate Revolution do this, but we have to try. And frankly, we have no choice but
to
try-because we can see people dying all around us.
Varshini Prakusl of the Sunrise Movement lays it out.
The role of young people in politics and movements through-
out the years has been to hold the moral line. And that requires us
Last November, tbe Sunrise Movement famously launched the fight for
to say things that may seem crazy, illogical. But we’re looking at the
the Green New Deal with a sit-in at incoming Horse Speaker Nancy right now, and even if it seems impossible, we’re saying, “That’s
science. And to us, honesty means looking at what the science says
Pelosi’s office on Capitol Hill. Thanks to the steely resolve of its young what’s necessary.”
leaders, as well as a carefully considered organizing strategy focused on WS: Reading most of the mainstream coverage, you’d think the
electoral politics, some fortuitous timing, and the belp of–among many
Sunrise Movement materialized out of thin air. So, what is Sunrise?
orbers–a rock-stur rookie congresswoman named Alexandria Ocasio-
VP: What we really hope Sunrise is, beyond the tagline, is a politi-
Cortez, Sunrise bas injected an unprecedented sense of urgency and
cal vehicle and home for millions of young people across America
seriousness into the climate debate. In May, Wen Stepbenson sat down for establishment for failing to do anything on climate for the last
who have felt outraged and scared and frustrated at the political
A conversation with the Sunrise Movement’s co-founder and executive di- for our entire lives. And that is, in its essence, what Sunrise is. And
rector, Varsbini Prakasb, in a Boston coffee shop. (The interview bas been it’s forging the relationships, the connections, the leaders that our
edited for length and clarity; for a longer version, go to TheNation.com.)
movement needs for decades to come.
WS: Is Sunrise part of the climate or climate-justice movement, or
is it something new?
Wen Stephenson: When you look at the overwhelming reality VP: Definitely part of the climate-justice movement, yeah. A
of the climate situation, do you ever find yourself struggling
with lot of the ideas embedded within the Green New Deal are not
despair?
new. It’s essentially an amalgamation of ideas and work that
Varshini Prakash: Yes! [Laugbing] I’d probably be emotionally communities of color, working people, frontline communities,
broken if I didn’t. It’s a catch-22: You’re emotionally broken if you have been calling for for a long time—a universal right to clean
do, you’re emotionally broken if you don’t. If you’re cutting off the air and clean water; a jobs guarantee or the creation of tens of
part of you that’s despairing, sad,
millions of good, high-paying,
grieving, you cut off your ability
unionized jobs; repairing histori-
to be a whole human being. In
cal harm to communities of color
the planning phase of Sunrise,
on the front lines of poverty and
we spent a lot of time thinking
pollution. All of those things were
about the kind of practices we
popularized by the just-transition
need in the movement that allow
movement, the climate-justice
us to grieve, share stories, un-
movement, the environmental-
derstand each ocher’s pain, and
justice movement.
move through that together.
WS: You’ve echoed Bernie Sand-
WS: I see Sunrise calling the
ers’s call for a “political revo-
Democratic establishment’s bluff
lution.” Can we get a political
that it’s serious about climate.
revolution simply by winning the
VP: Definitely. I mean, for 40
next election?
years, Democrats have been say-
VP: No. We have three prongs to
ing that they understand the sci-
our theory of change. First, we need
ence, and they’ve been in large
people power. Then we need politi-
part kicking the can down the
cal power i.e., winning elections).
road. We saw how it took Obama
And the third one is political revo-
five years to put any kind of
lution. We need a new governing
powerful climate plan forward, and it took a ton of movement alignment in this nation. Right now, we think there is a real crack in
energy to make that happen. It took the Keystone XL fight. It took neoliberalism, and there’s an opening to set the new dominant ideol-
divestment taking off, with all the civil disobedience and marches. ogy. We really believe in a government and an economy that works
For
us, a great example is the confrontation that the young for all people, no matter your skin color, how much money you have,
people had with Dianne Feinstein (in February), and her saying, where you live, whatever. And we believe the only thing that can get
“I’ve been doing this for 30 years I know what I’m doing.” And us to that point is a broad-based people’s alignment of movements,
we’re saying, “We have nothing. No, you don’t. So we’re going to think tanks and academics, businesses, unions, artists.
push you to step up, too.” Why do a bunch of 21-year-olds have WS: Do you think we can get a political revolution without mas-
to come and make this an actual national priority? We didn’t ask sive external pressure-shutting down business as usual?
to have the responsibility of protecting human civilization on our VP: It will take all of the above. The organizing does not stop after
shoulders. But we’re stepping up to the plate.
November 2020. What we need is a coalition on the scale of the co-
WS: What does being fully honest about the climate situation alition for health care, freedom to marry, or on par with something
sound like?
like what the Koch brothers are doing with their massive network.
VP: We need to give people something to fight for. That doesn’t We need to get ready for the greatest mass mobilization and non-
mean that we need to be lying to people about what’s possible. We cooperation strategy we have seen in a very long time.
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