WHEN DOES THIS RABBIT HOLE STOP AT THE NEXT TEA PARTY?

NEW CARBON FEE

INITIATIVE DRAFTED

with more color and

less white supremacy

By Sahrah Myre

It is very, very easy to fall down the minutia rabbit hole when it comes to climate policy—specifically because the writing of these policies has been characterized by white male power brokering between strong and potentially problematic personalities...

Because of the moral and economic quandaries that underlie how we address a planetary-scale problem at a regional level. 

Climate change is inseparable from decision making on human rights, because of the basic moral math... I'm going to say it like it is: When climate policy is written by white men in a closed room, that is white supremacy... 

Comrades, climate policy is collective Chippendale desks and the electrification of kites.

Why did I-732 fail? ... I think a clear component of the failure is the way that the initiative spilt the social justice and environmental communities down the center. Social justice and equity organizations called out both the lack of diverse voices in the initiative writing process and the lack of equity in how the generated revenue would be spent...we need to build equity and human rights into climate policy... as we wrestle with fundamentally reseating power away from the colonial system that brought us to this brink of planetary madness.