Sentences with phrase «kind of climate movement»

A different kind of climate movement would have tried to challenge the extreme ideology that was blocking so much sensible action, joining with other sectors to show how unfettered corporate power posed a grave threat to the habitability of the planet.

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Now, again, I and many others have said that the environmental movement has not done a good job of creating a grassroots movement on climate that might cause the kind of concern in people contemplating voting against needed to win those 60 votes.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Yet as McKibben's article makes clear, the movement has been forced to work around the Obama administration, rather than to prompt the kinds of transformative government - led actions on climate change that Obama's election was thought by many to herald.

Would the climate just movement be able to attract the same kind of coverage away from the COP space?