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It has become clear we face two distinct possible futures: Economic Transition or Ecological Collapse. If we stay the current course of a globalized industrial model, collapse is inevitable. Yet many current Transition efforts, tacitly accept or overtly promote the further marginalization of working class communities and communities of color. The fact is: Transition is inevitable, but Justice is not. Current climate change policy efforts are one example: high-density urban “smart growth” is fueling gentrification in many cities.
The dominant economy asserts that young black men are completely expendable, mountaintops & peoples in Appalachia are completely expendable, indigenous knowledge that cultivates our global food & medicine cabinet is completely expendable We must build a Transition movement that directly confronts these realities. We must create an intentional pathway – a Just Transition – towards local, living, loving, linked economies, rooted in racial, class & gender justice.
Join Mateo Nube from Movement Generation, as he lays out a Just Transition Framework for Action…
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