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      The False Narrative That Pits Workers Against a Cleaner Energy Future

      We should not take at face value the companies’ claims that improving labor standards is what stands in the way of electric vehicle profitability.

      Sarah Lazare
      Sep 20, 2023

      In recent media coverage of the United Auto Workers’ stand-up strike against the Big Three car makers—Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors—a false narrative is circulating: that the walkout is in conflict with the urgent need to mitigate climate change. The basic argument is that if wages and benefits were to improve, this would make the transition to electric vehicle manufacturing unprofitable, and would therefore imperil a centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s environmental policy.

      “Union demands would force Ford to scrap its investments in electric vehicles, Jim Farley, the company’s chief executive, said in an interview on Friday,” reporter Jack Ewing wrote for The New York Times on September 16. Ewing goes on to quote Farley saying, “We want to actually have a conversation about a sustainable future, not one that forces us to choose between going out of business and rewarding our workers.”

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      Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives speech at Climate March

      AOC Says Climate Movement Must Become 'Too Big and Too Radical to Ignore'

      "We have to send the message that some of us are going to be living on this planet 30, 40, 50 years from now and we will not take no for an answer."

      Jon Queally
      Sep 18, 2023

      Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a fiery speech to the tens of thousands of climate marchers who took to the streets of New York City on Sunday, telling the crowd that "it means something" when people show up in force because now is the time for elected leaders in the United States and around the world to finally show "urgency" on the issue of soaring global temperatures that are driven by the burning of fossil fuels.

      "The way that we create urgency on the issue of climate," declared Ocasio-Cortez, "is when we have people all across the world in the streets—in the streets!—showing up, demanding change, and demanding a cessation of what is killing us. We have to send the message that some of us are going to be living on this planet 30, 40, 50 years from now and we will not take no for an answer."

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      A man in an orange jacket installs a solar panel on a roof.

      Can the Global North Transition its Energy System Without Green Colonialism?

      The moment is right for Global South activists to influence European policy and the agenda of European civil society when it comes to climate and the environment.

      John Feffer
      Aug 29, 2023

      It was a dream team of activists and scholars who conducted a whirlwind advocacy tour of Europe at the end of May. They visited Germany, Belgium, and the U.K. to challenge the conventional notion that Europe’s energy transition is “clean” and to tell stories about the impact of Europe’s transition on people living in “sacrifice zones” in the Global South. Toward that end, they met with European Parliament members, NGO and social movement representatives, and journalists on their four-day tour. They participated in five public events in three cities. And they were part of an unusual art exhibition in London.

      Sponsored by the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South and the Global Just Transition project of the Institute for Policy Studies, this advocacy and lobbying tour was a follow-up from the “Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the Global South” published earlier this year.

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