Climate Justice for All

In order to save our planet, we must first recognize the systemic issues that are at the core of harming it: extractivism, systemic racism, and political corruption, to name a few. We cannot separate these issues. The companies that have profited from fossil fuels and accelerated the climate crisis are the same ones who have benefited from environmental injustice, colonialism, and racism. 

Hop Hopkins, Sierra Club’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, says it well

“We’re in this global environmental mess because we have declared parts of our planet to be disposable. The watersheds where we frack the earth to extract gas are considered disposable… The very atmosphere is considered disposable. When we pollute the hell out of a place, that’s a way of saying that the place—and the people and all the other life that calls that place home—are of no value.

 In order to treat places and resources as disposable, the people who live there have to get treated like rubbish too. Sacrifice zones imply sacrificed people.”

Just like we need to work hard to fight climate change and protect nature, we need to be active in dismantling the racism that is tearing our communities and country apart. Our goal is to fundamentally transform not just how we power this country, but who holds power in this country. As a nonprofit C3 and C4, we are uniquely positioned to work advocate directly for progressive policy and politicians.

Our work must be holistic. By addressing historic wrongs, we are paving a new way forward. We do that by intersecting our struggles and grow a movement that builds power and harnesses our shared values to transform our economic, cultural, and political systems.