So it is an emergency, and we must solve it. When Pearl Harbor was bombed at the outset of the second World War, it took us only six months to transform our economy to a wartime footing, because we recognized a national emergency. Right now we have a global emergency that makes Pearl Harbor look like small potatoes, because we're not talking about one harbor, we're talking about all harbors and all the coastal population centers we will lose in a catastrophic hit to civilization that will be very hard to survive.
So it is time to mobilize. We call for eliminating fossil fuels by , which is what the science says we must do if we are to hold temperature rise to less than 1. If we do that, we'd get so much healthier, in fact, that we'd save enough money to pay the costs of the Green New Deal within a decade or so.
So this is a win-win. The other win, I might add, is that it makes the wars for oil obsolete, which also allows us to put our dollars into true security here at home.
It is a microcosm of the global battles that are being fought. This is a fight for human rights, for the rights of the indigenous people to protect their sacred sites and their historic grave sites, which were viciously attacked by the Dakota Access Pipeline company in the middle of the night on a weekend, in the most underhanded and nefarious kind of way. It was really outrageous. And then, as the indigenous people stood up the next day to say, 'This is an outrage,' they were attacked with vicious attack dogs and pepper spray, simply for asserting their democratic rights, their civil rights, our First Amendment rights to protest for redress of grievances.
Not long afterwards, the president chimed in to say, 'Yes, we should stop this,' and then the courts chimed in to say, 'Yes, in fact, this permit is illegitimate, because the native people are supposed to give informed consent.
They have not been informed, and they did not consent. How are the goals of averting a climate disaster and institutionalized racism related? STEIN : I got my start fighting environmental racism in Massachusetts, working to close down the polluting medical waste incinerators in Lawrence and Lowell — a whole cluster of incinerators in one of the poorest and black and brown communities in New England.
Who is more on the firing line of climate justice than the communities of color in this country and around the world? The white community is not aware of the incredible price that's been paid by the African American community. Search for a provider, specialty or clinic. Browse All Providers. Find A Provider. Browse All Specialties. Find A Specialty. Stein began her political career in environmental activism. She was an undergraduate at Harvard in the late s and s. The Vietnam War was going on and she was at the university during the Harvard student strike, when students occupied Massachusetts Hall to protest the university's relationship with the military until police forcibly removed them.
After she graduated with her second Harvard degree from the Medical school in , she noticed many of her patients' illnesses were related to environmental pollution. From there, she developed a passion for green activism. In , she began protesting the "Filthy Five" coal plants in her home state of Massachusetts. She also campaigned for companies to reduce mercury exposure in food supply and testified before legislative panels on the damage the substance and other pollutants could do to children's brains.
Stein first entered party politics when the Green-Rainbow Party recruited her to run for Governor of Massachusetts in the election. She later ran again for governor in but did not win. Between and , she was a member of the Lexington Town Meeting for the 2 nd Precinct. However, she told The Havard Crimson in that Democrats can be "especially dangerous when they support a corporate agenda. Stein garnered only 0.
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