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The Environment
Fortunately, these communities and the elemental balance that
are often those best equipped will sustain our children in
to provide leadership, and have years ahead.
been cultivating real solutions
by: In conclusion, and like we have
Investing in grassroots, said many times before, Climate
frontline organizing that builds Change and the Climate Crisis
our power, improves conditions happening all across the globe
in our communities, and stops is not Mother Nature suddenly
the corporations disrupting our trying to turn against humans.
backyards; No. Climate Change is the fruit
Prioritizing localized action to of our neglect and misuse of
build resilient communities, Mother Nature. In other words,
economic alternatives, and we are the ones who turned our
infrastructure we need to backs on nature, we wrapped
weather the storms; and, ourselves with the garments of
Supporting solidarity with greed and selfish reasoning for
grassroots movements around the pursuit of money to satisfy
the world, to link struggles and our insatiable greed and quest
cause the harm. The genocide
of Indigenous Peoples, the share policies, strategies, and for control. It should be clear to
Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the resources trans-locally. anyone who is thinking right that
femicide of woman leaders by nature cannot be controlled; we
patriarchal religions, and the These strategic paths allow us can only work with nature to get
globalized theft of land, labor, to tackle the disproportionate the best out of our environment
and lives by colonial empires, burdens and benefits and natural resources. We all
have resulted in the massive experienced by historically have responsibilities to carry
wealth disparities that exist oppressed communities out when it comes to mitigating
around the world today. This everywhere. the Climate Crisis, we just need
historic harm has also directly to stop making the issue of
served to create the economic One of the best pathways Climate Change another money-
systems driving climate change. to simultaneously protect making machine to satisfy our
Our ability to tackle climate biodiversity, decolonize our never-ending avarice.
chaos will hinge on how well economies, and mitigate
we can repair such harm and climate chaos is for colonial
redistribute stolen resources settler states to give land back
to the communities on the to Indigenous Nations and tribal
frontlines of this crisis. grassroots communities who
are best equipped to lead us in
restoring natural ecosystems
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