A ton of mainstream environmentalists RT'd this. And a ton of environmental journalists praised Brown as climate hero. They all ignored poc.https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov/status/885603411005022208 …
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Under cap-and-trade, LA is poised to open the largest oil refinery on West Coast. Guess the race of the people who live across the street?
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It's people of color, of course. Cap-and-trade doesn't do anything to protect our lungs from deadly pollution. It protects big oil instead.
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I purposefully didn't tweet about the most recent cap-and-trade bill in California. But I watched what people were tweeting. Oh boy.
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White enviros and journalists were condescendingly writing that cap-and-trade is about politics. And that politics is about sacrifice.pic.twitter.com/uc6IESCvQq
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Guess whose lungs are being sacrificed? Yeah.... it's not the white enviros and journos that are trying to explain politics to us.
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It's easy to have that position when you and you're children are literally breathing way easier than the rest of us. Must be nice.
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In the United States, climate change starts in communities of color littered with oil refineries. That's still true in liberal California.
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I got to profile one of the most amazing people I know working to end climate change and environmental justice in California: Taylor Thomas.
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Thomas grew up in a sacrifice zone; that's still where her office is today. She slices right through what's stake:https://www.kcet.org/shows/earth-focus/she-lost-her-breath-to-asthma-but-found-her-passion-in-environmental-justice …
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Thomas went in on cap-and-trade. She says it ames sense that people with race and class privilege ultimately dismiss environmental justice.
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THIS QUOTE: “It’s not unreasonable to ask for clean air, and it’s not radical to think there shouldn't be a rail yard in our backyard.”
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In case you're curious about cap-and -trade, I provide an objective explanation. It can seem weird and mysterious, but it's not.pic.twitter.com/auRXgT1OWJ
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It's ironic, really, how much the environmental movement bows down to big oil -- consistently putting it first over certain people's lungs.
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It doesn't have to be like this. And I think history will agree that handshakes with big oil should've never been called progress.
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