Voting the Climate means voting to eliminate local emissions causing suffering around the planet and here at home. It means prioritizing investment in San Antonio neighborhoods that are least able to recover from the heat-related disasters we can’t avoid.
Voting the Climate means voting to eliminate local emissions causing suffering around the planet and here at home. It means prioritizing investment in San Antonio neighborhoods that are least able to recover from the heat-related disasters we can’t avoid. It means cleaning up our air for the little ones and our elders. It means caring for the myriad lives bound up in a complex and wondrous web that sustains us all. It means waking up to the fact of our utter dependence on one another and taking responsibility for our individual actions. It means demanding candidates place planetary security top of their agenda and holding every elected official accountable to vote the climate every day they are in office.
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
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