Just Transition
Ensure that climate solutions are also equitable and guard against false solutions.
climate solutions do not exist independent of other systems; they interact in complex ways with social, economic and other world systems. This pattern specifies that those side effects should be to the benefit of everyone.
Solutions to climate change can be too narrow and focused on carbon outputs at the expense of other concerns, namely the people that the solution negatively affects.
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In choosing solutions for campaigns, it’s important that the solutions be in line with the principles, processes and practices of a just transition (https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition) as outlined by the Climate Justice Alliance.
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From the website: “The transition [from an extractive economy to a generative economy] itself must be just and equitable; redressing past harms and creating new relationships of power for the future through reparations. If the process of transition is not just, the outcome will never be.”
Therefore:
Make sure that solutions that are promoted are designed to also move us toward the generative economy in a just way. Look for where the power relationships are strengthened, and choose solutions where the power is more evenly and equitably distributed.
Look for these kinds of comprehensive solutions in the Movement News.