What these young climate activists are showing is that the ‘climate change’ movement is really just about left wing politics
These Young Climate Justice Advocates Say It’s Time for a Revolution
On July 21, youth climate marchers will converge on Washington and around the country to demand a better future.
So, wait, they’re going to take long, fossil fueled trips to complain about anthropogenic climate change? That’s weird.
Jamie Margolin can’t remember a time in her life when climate change wasn’t a crisis. The signs were everywhere, from the disappearing sea life in the 16-year-old’s hometown of Seattle, to the climate-related disasters in Colombia where her mother’s family lives.
“When you’re growing up with all this beautiful wildlife around you, it gives you a better idea of what you want to protect,†said Margolin, who will start 11th grade this fall. “And also it’s more painful when, for example, things go wrong, when you see that that habitat is being destroyed.â€
Margolin said she wanted to take action when she was younger, but avoided it because the problem was so terrifying. But Donald Trump’s election spurred her to action.
So Trump Derangement Syndrome. Check
A diverse group of students is spearheading the march. They’ve created a platform shared exclusively with HuffPost that recognizes the environmental impact of climate change on marginalized communities such as indigenous, homeless, queer and trans people, communities of color, and people with disabilities.
“You really can’t fight for climate justice without fighting all of these other systems of oppression, because those systems of oppression are why we’re here in the first place,†said Margolin. More than 40 groups have endorsed the movement, including the global grassroots climate organization 350.org, which described the upcoming event as the largest youth-of-color-organized climate march in U.S. history.
So, identity and hyper-leftist politics. Check. And they complain a lot about fossil fuels. Yet, they’re still using them themselves, and will use a lot to head to Washington, D.C.
“As the Trump administration disregards the dignity and human rights of young people and their families, we have a responsibility to stand with youth who are fighting to protect our collective future and prevent the worst impacts of climate change,†said May Boeve, 350.org’s executive director, in a statement announcing the endorsement last month.
More TDS.
“There’s just so much death in the bay, and if the fish are dying, the fisherman can’t fish and create their business and they lose their livelihood,†said Nazar, who has grown up visiting and learning from the researchers at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology where her mom, a marine biologist, works. “The whole bay is just really polluted and not doing very well.â€
Which is an environmental problem, not a ‘climate change’ problem.
“There has to be revolution in, really, the way we live. You can’t take down climate change without taking down rampant consumerism and all of these other oppressive systems,†said Margolin. “It’s more about the larger human change that has to happen. I always like to say that we’re not just fighting climate change, we’re fighting for human change.â€
Say the people who can barely look away from their capitalist created smartphones while getting their capitalist created weird coffees, wearing their capitalist created backpacks and clothes, and heading to their protests in capitalist created fossil fueled vehicles.
But, hey, revolution! To……find out that their lives become much more costly and they’ve given up their freedom voluntarily to government.
