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The fight to avert climate change is rooted in a very fundamental drive: protecting the places we call home.
Protecting them from the rising tides, the raging fires, the roiling storms, and the famine-inducing droughts.
Protecting the planet for future generations to call home.
Protecting them from the rising tides, the raging fires, the roiling storms, and the famine-inducing droughts.
Protecting the planet for future generations to call home.
Frontline communities have been feeling the effects of fossil fuels and pollution for generations, as our homes have become poisonous deathtraps.
Pollution in our air causes asthma, toxins in our water cause developmental disorders, and poisons in the earth cause cancer.
Pollution in our air causes asthma, toxins in our water cause developmental disorders, and poisons in the earth cause cancer.
It's clear as day: the climate crisis is a threat to millions (and eventually, billions) of people's homes.
But our society's reaction to medical crisis - the COVID pandemic - has revealed how fragile our access to our homes can be, and just how poor our prepared response is.
But our society's reaction to medical crisis - the COVID pandemic - has revealed how fragile our access to our homes can be, and just how poor our prepared response is.
Millions have lost their jobs, as we all struggle with the new reality of a deadly infectious disease.
Those jobs were people's rent, their food, their student loan payments.
Their jobs were already barely making ends meet in the face of rising rents. Now, it feels hopeless.
Those jobs were people's rent, their food, their student loan payments.
Their jobs were already barely making ends meet in the face of rising rents. Now, it feels hopeless.
People with savings are seeing them emptied out.
Many more are forced into dangerous jobs that expose them every day.
Young people are moving back in with their parents because they can't pay their rent or loans.
Many simply could not afford rent, and have ended up homeless.
Many more are forced into dangerous jobs that expose them every day.
Young people are moving back in with their parents because they can't pay their rent or loans.
Many simply could not afford rent, and have ended up homeless.
Rent eviction moratoriums are the only thing standing between so many people and homelessness, and when those moratoriums end, months of rent will come due all at once.
We were already in the midst of a housing crisis, with steeply rising rents and half a million unhoused.
We were already in the midst of a housing crisis, with steeply rising rents and half a million unhoused.
COVID has taken a sledgehammer to the cracks in the foundation of our society.
This is not the first time. In 2008, a financial crisis struck the country, and 10 million people lost their homes.
What happens when the climate crisis starts reaching dangerous tipping points?
This is not the first time. In 2008, a financial crisis struck the country, and 10 million people lost their homes.
What happens when the climate crisis starts reaching dangerous tipping points?
An unmanaged climate crisis will destroy millions of homes, and create millions of refugees.
We are already seeing that internationally already. The Syrians in camps in Europe, the Honduran and Guatemalan in cages at our Southern border - they are the first climate refugees.
We are already seeing that internationally already. The Syrians in camps in Europe, the Honduran and Guatemalan in cages at our Southern border - they are the first climate refugees.
If we do not act, as the climate crisis continues to worsen, we will see intranational climate refugees: fleeing hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, fires on the West Coast.
The combination of these crises would be a housing crisis the likes of which we have never seen.
The combination of these crises would be a housing crisis the likes of which we have never seen.
That's why a year ago the first Green New Deal bill introduced was the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act.
We must ensure that everybody is housed, and in high-density housing that is as carbon-neutral as possible.
That is how we avert that dystopian future.
We must ensure that everybody is housed, and in high-density housing that is as carbon-neutral as possible.
That is how we avert that dystopian future.
We need to:
Retrofit our existing housing to be more resilient to climate disasters, and more energy efficient.
Build millions of new, energy efficient, climate resilient public housing units.
With carbon emissions as the primary consideration. https://www.vox.com/2019/11/14/20964660/aoc-bernie-sanders-green-new-deal-housing
Retrofit our existing housing to be more resilient to climate disasters, and more energy efficient.
Build millions of new, energy efficient, climate resilient public housing units.
With carbon emissions as the primary consideration. https://www.vox.com/2019/11/14/20964660/aoc-bernie-sanders-green-new-deal-housing
We're fighting for the places we call home. "We" must mean "all humanity".
If we don't reverse the poisoning of marginalized communities
If we don't ensure that everybody is housed
If we don't house (not cage) climate refugees
It's clear who we treat as human (and who we don't)
If we don't reverse the poisoning of marginalized communities
If we don't ensure that everybody is housed
If we don't house (not cage) climate refugees
It's clear who we treat as human (and who we don't)
