In
plaats van vluchtelingen te demoniseren, die NB op de vlucht zijn
geslagen door VS bemoeienissen met Latijns-America, zou de regering
van de VS de noodtoestand moeten afroepen over de klimaatverandering!
De democratische politici Earl
Blumenauer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez en Bernie Sanders wijzen de
Trump administratie op de vreselijke gevolgen van de
klimaatverandering, gevolgen waar de VS nu al mee te maken heeft,
gezien de steeds vaker optredende bosbranden en de steeds heviger en
vaker optredende verwoestende orkanen. Niet vreemd dus dat de
voornoemde politici aan de bel trekken, waar zij stellen dat Trump de
vluchtelingen die de VS willen bereiken, wel heeft uitgeroepen tot
noodtoestand (waarbij hij hen afschildert als misdadigers…) en de ogen sluit voor de klimaatramp die zich voor zijn ogen (en de rest van zijn administratie) voltrekt.
Uiteraard is het afroepen van de noodtoestand over vluchtelingenstromen door Trump te
belachelijk voor woorden*, waar Trump en zijn administratie keer op
keer durven te stellen dat de klimaatverandering een leugen is van
linkse krachten….. Dit terwijl zoals gezegd de gevolgen van de
klimaatverandering al velen in de VS in diepe ellende hebben gestort
en deze verhevigde natuurrampen het volk van de VS al honderden miljarden dollars aan
belastinggeld hebben gekost…..
De VS
wordt in feite deels bestuurd door het bedrijfsleven, inclusief de
oliemaffia, waar de grote bedrijven op z’n zachtst gezegd grote
moeite hebben met maatregelen die de klimaatverandering nog enigszins
kunnen afremmen, daar hun winsten daar onder zullen leiden en zelfs zouden kunnen leiden tot het sluiten van hele bedrijfstakken die niet anders doen dan de klimaatverandering aanjagen…….
Lees het
volgende artikel van Meagan Day, gepubliceerd op JACOBIN:
The
US Government Should Declare Climate Emergency
By
Meagan Day
Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a rally at Howard University
May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC, for the Green New Deal. Alex Wong /
Getty Images
The
havoc that will soon be wrought by climate change is unfathomable.
It’s a crisis — one which Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, and Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded yesterday the US
government recognize. It’s a needed step towards winning a Green New
Deal.
To
justify his administration’s barbaric actions at the Southern
border, Donald Trump is using the language of crisis. In May 2019,
a scaremongering
statement from
the White House declared that the United States “has been invaded
by hundreds of thousands of people coming through Mexico.” This
“sustained influx of illegal aliens” is “overwhelming our
schools, overcrowding our hospitals, draining our welfare system, and
causing untold amounts of crime,” the administration said.
This,
of course, is bullshit.
The
United States is currently
seeing a
net outflow of
undocumented immigrants. And even if we weren’t, these people have
a right to migrate in order to create a life free from wanton
violence and economic devastation — chaos largely
created by
the United States.
Immigrants
do not “overwhelm” us; they are us,
and their presence in this country does not constitute a crisis.
Their abuse at
the hands of our government, however, absolutely does.
The
Trump administration recently invoked the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify its inhumane treatment of immigrants
on US soil. This struck Rep.
Earl Blumenauer of Oregon as unjustifiably hypocritical. What if we
used the language of crisis to instead describe an actual mass
emergency: the looming threat of climate disaster, which the Trump
administration categorically neglects and which, unlike the presence
of undocumented immigrants, requires drastic and immediate political
action in order to ensure public safety?
Blumenauer
has teamed up with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to
propose legislation declaring global warming a national and
international emergency.
The
resolution was submitted to
the House of Representatives on Tuesday. In order to address the
crisis at hand, it calls
for “a
national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization of the
resources and labor of the United States at a massive-scale to halt,
reverse, mitigate, and prepare for the consequences of the climate
emergency and to restore the climate for future generations.”
The
legislation may have been inspired by Trump’s duplicity, but the
idea did not spring fully formed from Blumenauer’s mind. It is a
response to climate activists, who have been increasingly demanding
that national, state, and local governments around the world declare
the climate crisis an emergency.
In
April, the new group Extinction Rebellion occupied central London for
ten days. “The science is clear: It is understood that we are
facing an unprecedented global emergency,” says
the group.
“We are in a life or death situation of our own making. We must act
now.” Extinction Rebellion’s first demand is that governments
“must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological
emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency
for change.”
Declarations
of emergency are also the most
urgent demand of
The Climate Mobilization, a US-based climate activist group waging a
campaign to pressure governments to sign on. The group
states that
“declaring Climate Emergency is the critical first step to
launching the comprehensive mobilization solution required to rescue
and rebuild civilization.”
In
response to the Extinction Rebellion protests, the United Kingdom
House of Commons declared
emergency in
May. Similar declarations around the world are pouring in. To date,
climate emergency has been declared by 740 jurisdictions globally,
one of which is New York City, which declared
emergency in
June. Los Angeles appears set to follow
suit.
The joint resolution proposed by Blumenauer, Ocasio-Cortez, and
Sanders would make the United States the seventeenth and largest
nation to heed the crisis declaration call from climate activists.
It
remains to be seen whether the US federal climate emergency
resolution has the support needed to pass into law. The United States
government sustains intimate ties with the fossil fuel industry, ties
that have so far prevented political representatives from touching
anything that opens the door, as this resolution does, to a national
mobilization to cease fossil fuel extraction and transition to a
zero-emissions economy. Even though the resolution is nonbinding, it
clearly gestures toward the implementation of a Green
New Deal (GND) which,
as envisioned by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders, would spell the end of
the fossil fuel era.
There’s
another reason legislators may be hesitant, despite clear evidence
that we are indeed facing a climate emergency, to vote for a bill
that paves the way for a Green New Deal. The GND isn’t just about
saving the planet: it’s about doing so in a way that builds the
power of working people and erodes inequality, on the basis that the
current capitalist system brought us to the brink of destruction to
begin with.
To
this end, the GND would create millions
of green jobs,
and insists that they come with “a family-sustaining wage, adequate
family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to
all people of the United States.”
American
politicians aren’t just beholden to the fossil fuel industry;
they’re beholden to the capitalist class writ large. Reducing
unemployment and building worker power — including providing
universal healthcare, education, and housing, also outlined in the
GND — makes exploitation
harder,
which means profits for the few will sink even as living standards
for the many improve. There’s no doubt that the GND will face
tremendous pushback in the halls of power, and that pushback may
begin with shooting down this declaration.
The
best shot we have at muscling this bill through is to raise hell in
the streets. It’s sound politics: when the people in power don’t
want to budge, the majority must create pressure from the outside to
force their hand. It’s no easy task. But if people fight hard
enough, we might be able to get the United States — the biggest
carbon polluter in world history — to formally acknowledge
the real crisis at hand.
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Zie ook:
‘Extinction Rebellion richt zich teveel op de toekomst‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)
‘Boeren vs Extinction Rebellion: ‘zoek de verschillen’‘
‘Extinction Rebellion blokkeert de vuilste straat van Nederland en GL burgemeester Halsema stuurt in haar plaats de ME‘
* Waarmee Trump ook nog eens haatzaait tegen vluchtelingen en dat in een land dat bomvol zit met bewapende psychopaten…… Intussen vertrekken er veel mensen de VS, die eerder vluchtten uit Latijns-Amerika (waaronder een aantal met een verblijfsvergunning), daar men in de VS steeds vijandiger wordt tegen deze minderheden…..
