Jim Shultz
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Jim Shultz
is an author, activist, and founder and executive director of The Democracy Center.
Jim Shultz
This is not the first time forward progress has ended in a right-wing regime. And the past has plenty of lessons for how to go forward effectively.
The political saga of the Keystone XL pipeline is like a real-life version of The Force Awakens. So why are we giving the Dark Side even more power?
鈥淭here may be no greater, growing threat facing the world鈥檚 children鈥攁nd their children鈥攖han climate change.鈥�
No global agreement is coming to save the day. Our powers lie elsewhere, in our communities especially, and this is where we must take the battle.
Negotiators have stopped trying to win a binding international agreement on carbon emissions. Now it鈥檚 up to the people to push our governments to action.
The leading strategies in the climate justice movement already resemble the Cold War policies of containment, roll-back, and isolation. But can they wear down the political power of the fossil fuel industry?
Three major international meetings about climate change are on the horizon. Is this the moment to fix the failures of Copenhagen?
It is good to mourn for what's being lost. But giving up just gives the fossil fuel industry what it wants.