Coal, oil, gas don’t just burn to cause climate change

Coal, oil, gas don’t just burn to cause climate change

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Bloomberg

Discussions about how to fight climate change almost always conclude with a lament over the "lack of political will.“ It's as if the roadblock preventing these clean-tech visions and white-paper dreams from becoming market-driven reality is an irrational, unforeseen hiccup. That's a comforting fallacy. The lack of political will is the whole point: Climate change is a problem caused by entrenched systems of social, economic, and political power. To overturn that, the climate community would do well to learn from the fight for racial justice. Many climate advocates and researchers seem to be just now starting down this line of reasoning, but not all. The Green New Deal put forward in February 2019 in the US incorporated social justice goals into its vision for an economic shift away from fossil fuels. That turned out to be too politically ambitious for that moment, but it helped energise a constituency that has since taken on the mantle of leadership in the American climate movement. Last week the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis“”itself a product of that constituency's lobbying“”released an action plan to "address the urgency of the climate crisis and begin to repair the legacy