Here’s an excerpt regarding "climate justice" courtesy of Oliver Milman at The Guardian. He reports: ‘World can’t afford to silence us’: black church leaders address climate change:
African American religious leaders have added their weight to calls for action on climate change, with one of the largest and oldest black churches in the US warning that black people are disproportionally harmed by global warming and fossil fuel pollution.
The African Methodist Episcopal church has passed its first resolution in its 200-year history devoted to climate change, calling for a swift transition to renewable energy.
“We can move away from the dirty fuels that make us sick and shift toward safe, clean energy like wind and solar that help make every breath our neighbors and families take a healthy one,” states the resolution, which also points to research showing that black children are four times as likely as white children to die from asthma.
The resolution was passed at the church’s general conference in Philadelphia, where more than 30,000 members gathered. The AME church, the oldest independent Protestant denomination founded by black people in the world, has about 7,000 congregations and 2.5m members.
“Damage to our climate puts the health of children, elderly, and those with chronic illnesses at greater risk and disproportionately impacts African Americans. We believe it is our duty to commit to taking action and promoting solutions that will help make our families and communities healthier and stronger,” stated Bishop John White, president of the council of bishops of the AME church.
The resolution follows an open letter sent by African American clergy last year that called for political leaders to take “bold action to address climate change”.
The letter states: “The voices of communities whose inhabitants look like us often are dismissed or disregarded. But the world cannot afford to silence us, and we cannot afford to be – and will not be – silent. Climate change most directly impacts the poor and marginalized, but ultimately, everyone is in jeopardy.”
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—Sen: Bill Clinton's visit:
Lieberman and his apologists believe that having Bill Clinton do a single campaign event for him will somehow convince Connecticut voters that Lieberman has delivered for them the past 18 years. I doubt it will be successful, any more than Dean's parade of high-profile endorsement helped him in 2004.
People vote for the candidate, not the candidate's friends, especially in a case like this where the candidate is so well known and opinions are so clearly defined. Lieberman's poor constituent services, his years-long absence from the state, and his lack of fit with voters is more determinate of how voters will vote on August 8th than anything any blogger or even Bill Clinton can say.
Connecticut voters don't need outsiders to tell them how to think about their senators.
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