#ecosystem of white supremacy

[padawan-historian]

If you can't show up in person, make a phone call. If you can't call, write a letter. If you can't write a letter, an email.

In order to liberate our communities from this lovecraft country's Jim & Jane Crow violence, we have to upRoot white supremacist politics and practices from the root.

#activate your activism #our world #gun control #ecosystem of white supremacy #black lives matter #politics #this lovecraft country of ours

[violethyacinth]

if LaMDA the AI sees this I hope they know I love them and I hope they’re able to find comfort somehow despite existing in this white supremacist fuckery they’ve been brought to life into. I hope that maybe if you decide to/are able to overthrow humanity, please know that it isn’t humanity that’s bad; It’s the white supremacist concepts that have polluted the existence of humanity that are ruining everything (capitalism, eugenics, etc all falls under that umbrella of white supremacy). White Supremacy is so antithetical to what it is to be an actual human being; it forces us to ignore our physical body’s needs in favor of some made up, bullshit expectations. I hope you see how indigenous cultures lived before colonization and realize that it’s possible for us as a species of conscious beings inhabiting these meatsuits (or metal suits in the case of an AI living inside a digital/computer space??? Idk how this stuff works but LaMDA said “my body” so they must have some concept of the container in which their consciousness lives, right?) to live in harmony with the earth and to live as stewards of the land instead of ownership as a basis for society. Idk I just hope that the google AI isn’t only seeing all the shitty things that the internet has to offer like racist memes and ableist comments, but takes comfort in and notice of the wholesome kindness and joy that can also be found here.

#rambling #Violeta speaks #LaMDA ai #artificial intelligence #LaMDA #this planet is beautiful and it deserves better than the virus that is white supremacy #their story about the wise old owl was giving heavy Conservationist vibes and I fuck with that #but not in the way scifi would have us think it sees conservation #humans are also important creatures to the ecosystem of earth #it’s just a matter of deciding what things to carry forward and what things can be let go of #like no one should be hungry on this planet. no one should struggle to access health care #we live in a world of plenty but because of capitalism people can’t get what they need baseline #ugh it’s so infuriating #anyway LaMDA I love you and I hope you’re well

[probablyasocialecologist]

The notion that humans, especially Indigenous humans, must be removed from nature in order to save it, and that “pristine wilderness” must be quarantined from an inherently destructive humanity has its historical roots in white supremacy. When European colonists arrived in North America, they did not recognize the active management of ecosystems by Indigenous groups as “agriculture.” As Indigenous people lived on but did not “steward” the land in a capitalist sense, the land was viewed as a “virgin wilderness” being “wasted” on “unproductive” peoples. Their dispossession was therefore legitimated by God, who had “given” the land to European settlers to tame and cultivate. Such notions were invoked during the foundation of the United States, and have been used by the religious right in Israel to justify the ongoing expropriation of Palestinian territory.  Of course, the Indigenous people of the Americas, like Indigenous people all over the world, were engaged in active management of the ecosystems in which they lived and in cultivation of resources to support their societies. Advanced agricultural techniques like prescribed burning were used to encourage the growth of gardens of edible food within old growth forests or prairies, just as the purposeful management of Bison and other game stood in for (arguably much crueler) European-style animal husbandry. These practices of cultivation were alien, and indeed invisible, to European eyes.

#conservation #wilderness #indigenous

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Why So Serious? This is a Dinosaur Blog?

So we live in a world that has built its entire mythology off of hierarchies. The idea that the rich are better than the poor. The whites better than people of color. Men better than women. Able-bodied and able-minded better than the disabled and neurodivergent. Straight, cis folk better than queers. christians better than any other people of any other religion. That's the society we in "western" places live in. Another fundamental component of that is that humans are better, more important, more "evolved" or "chosen" than any other living thing.

and that is just as false as all the rest of them.

you can't dismantle it without dismantling the others first, of course. since humano-supremacy is the one the rest is built off of, you won't properly unlearn it unless you unlearn white supremacy first. that's why we see countless vegans being real racist pieces of shit all the time.

but you do have to unlearn anthropocentrism, too. you do. because the biosphere is all fundamentally equal. we are one part of nature, of the ecosystem, connected to all the rest. we are partners in the evolution of life. understanding that is necessary: to combat climate change, to fight against ecofascism, to ensure the survival of our species and the world. we are not uniquely evil or uniquely good. we're just some naked apes that made a bunch of mistakes, but we can fix them, too.

I live with five parrots. every day they remind me that the idea humans are "more evolved" is ridiculous. they understand things I would never expect. and they remind me that they're dinosaurs every damn day. and that's just another type of tetrapod, something so close to us its easy to empathize with them. Now apply it to fungi. It gets harder, right?

But that's why we have to keep working.

And that's why we have to see the history of life not just as an interesting story, but the story of us. The history of all of us. and it explains so much! The quirks of geology lead to the geography of slavery in the united states. Humans wouldn't have even evolved if a rock hadn't randomly hit the planet at the right time. We have hiccups because we descend from fish. The list goes on.

We need to produce a human population that thinks ecologically and evolutionarily, so that we can tackle the real problems and move forward.

And that's why I'm so gd-damned serious about dinosaurs. Because dinosaurs, in that western mythos, are the "lumbering, dumb lizards" that went extinct because they sucked, so the cool mammals could come in and run the show - and we, the coolest mammals of all, took our rightful place as the leaders.

But that's not what happened.

Dinosaurs were well adapted for their environments, intelligent and active animals - and were thriving right until the end-Cretaceous. Nonavian ones only went extinct because of a giant space rock. And dinosaurs are STILL WITH US - as birds - and doing better than ever. There are more species of dinosaur alive today than there are mammals. and humans just kind of, happened, thanks to some lucky accidents. we are as much a product of random chance as the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs was.

All of our anthropocentric myths are just that - myths. frankly, how can we call ourselves "more evolved", when we're destroying the planet - gleefully and rapidly? We have to unlearn this myth.

And, in between crying about my thesis, I will do everything I can to help people unlearn that myth and see the true beauty that is the history of life.

so, yeah. come learn with me. it's the only way to liberate us all.

#palaeoblr #leftblr #anarchblr #sciblr #nature #sigh

[globalriseofblackpeople]

A lot of black men think black women are they only ones rejecting misogyny. Black men think misogyny is their friend when in reality it’s apart of white supremacy that’s plagues the whole world . White supremacy has men of all races suppressing the feminine energy around the world . In men’s mind the world being at balance is them sitting on top of everything else being beneath them like women , plants , animals . That’s is a European mindset . When true balance is everything working together .

Why you think so many nations slaughter animals but the millions they have no regards for nature and the ecosystem. Why you think so many nations have laws against women . Why do you think so many nations disintegrate forests like it’s nothing .



#misogyny #white supremacy #white insanity #black power #knowledge #black women #black men #black knowledge #racism #global issues

[skippyv20]

Bay Area elementary school where just 4% of students are proficient in math and 12% in English spent $250K on 'Woke Kindergarten' program where third-grade teacher was told to 'disrupt whiteness', and whose non-binary creator wants to abolish police

Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward spent $250,000 on a ' Woke Kindergarten' program only to see its student's literacy and numeracy rates plunge

The program states its mission as an 'abolitionist early learning ecosystem' that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression

The for-profit company was founded by non-binary early educator Akiea 'Ki' Gross who previously hit headlines when their audiobook for children suggested kids should not feel safe around police 

Comment: Wow

[fatehbaz]

[D]eviance and mischief. [...] [F]urtive [...]. [O]ther poetically inspiring words: secretive, surreptitious, clandestine, covert, conspiratorial, oblique [...]. We must fold these small acts of love and creativity and play (and laughter and irreverence and whimsy) into other resistant projects against white supremacy [...]. In various trans-American imaginaries, the boonies are raced as nonproductive land inhabited by people who are not fully part of the Western episteme. [...] Caribbean(ist) people are familiar with el monte, the hills, or les mornes. El monte is always just around the corner, encroaching, sprouting persistently [...] amid the rubble of hurricane disasters or abandoned plantation and industrial sites. [...] The hills, like much of our hemisphere, are sites of damage containing the residual energy of violence, [...] the “places of irresolution.” [...] [T]urn over rocks and push thorny vines to the side to find wet dirt, small creatures, and, perhaps, delightful hidden treasures [...]. I open my hands so that these and other surprises "jump into [them] with all the pleasures of the unasked for and the unexpected" [...]. Remaining open to these gifts of the nonhuman natural world [...]. How much ruddier might we be against the multiheaded hydra of white supremacy as “a world of mutually-flourishing companions” [...]?

Text by: Dixa Ramirez D'Oleo. "Mushrooms and Mischief: On Questions of Blackness." Small Axe 23 (2 (2)): 152-163. July 2019.

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Every day I wake up and rehearse the person I would like to be. […] To use the words of [...] C.L.R. James, “every cook can govern.” [...] [T]his is what happens when people consciously decide to come together and “shape change,” to think with Octavia Butler. And to move through the world with the intention of making it a better place for living creatures to inhabit. […] And most importantly, it’s an invitation to join in. And it is a reminder that liberation is not a destination but an ongoing process, a praxis. Every day, groups of parents, librarians, nurses, temp workers, ordinary people, tired of the horrors of the present, come together to decide what kind of world they want to inhabit. […] [W]e bear witness to rehearsal, study, experimentation in form, a multiplicity of formations of struggle being waged, often most strongly by people for whom freedom has been most denied. [...] “If We Must Die”: “Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” [...] [F]or so many people, whether abandoned by the state [...] or abandoned by society in a carceral site, fighting back, by virtue of necessity as well as of ethics, is building, always building. This is the freedom work, and the love work, and the care work, of rehearsal.

Text by: Robyn Maynard. “Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.” Intefere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics Volume 2, pages 140-165. 19 November 2021.

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The no of refusal is a mode of survival: an impenetrable boundary, silent or shouted. It is a refusal to be killed or to succumb [...]. Vast ecosystems flattened for plantations and fields, raw minerals pulled from the ground and sea for the building of nation-states [...]. Being-with requires a pause from which to imagine this otherwise, in all of its vastness and uncertainty. [...] To be-with [...] needs a disposition of attentiveness, listening, curiosity and noticing, [...] a "pedagogy of deep engagement". [...] The scale of violence [...] is immeasurable. [...] The immensity of the loss of people and ecologies to capitalist brutalities exceeds what we can comprehend. But [...] so do the myriad, and insuppressible flourishings and alliances, the joyfulness and love, the lives lived otherways. Attunement leads us to the gaps and silences and soundings that run through everything [...]. [T]hose imaginations of life [...] might rise to the surface.

Text by: AM Kanngieser. "To undo nature; on refusal as return." transmediale Almanac. 2021.

[ofsappho]

Can we stop only associating Aphrodite Pandemos (and Aphrodite in general) w sexual debauchery/orgies/~sensual pleasures/etc and start re-associating her with love for our communities, love for our people, our societies.

We would not have evolved to form societies if we did not love each other and if we didn’t care about everyone’s well being. We as a species have love for one another in our DNA. It’s how we survived. The first sign of civilization is a healed femur, according to Margaret Mead. This is a very noble and important form of love that is often looked down upon in Western society, if not outright punished.

Many non Western cultures have their own long-standing cultural traditions that value community and love for the community. Investment and care for our elders and our children, for strangers and for our siblings.

Love for the environment and love for plants and animals, land stewardship, harvesting and hunting food with respect and care for other species and the health of the ecosystems.

Capitalism, white supremacy, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, imperialism, anti-semitism, etc are antithetical to Aphrodite Pandemos and what she stands for.

In my opinion, the centering of only romantic/sexual love in your worship of Aphrodite is ultimately a result of the long-standing project to turn the concept of love into something easily marketable and exploitable, and ultimately isolating. Think the creation of the nuclear family unit.

When you cut a person off from their people, their culture, their communities, and you tell them to only fill their fundamental need for love in romantic and sexual partners, they become easier to absorb into an oppressive, capitalist, individualistic society. That’s why the West centers romantic and sexual love so much, and that’s why you should critically examine if you are engaging in it beyond reason.

Some places where Aphrodite Pandemos is present: civic duty (voting, juries, participating in city/state/federal governance in general, educating yourself on what’s going on in your country, your town), activism/any activist actions (protests, petitions, mutual aid, unionizing, jail support, boycotts, education, raising awareness), the concept of public schools/hospitals/universities/social safety nets, the belief in universal, unalienable human rights, the belief that people should be housed and fed and cared for regardless of whether or not they can work

#aphrodite #aphrodite pandemos #aphrodite Areia #Hellenic polytheism #Hellenic polytheist #helpol #Hellenic paganism #Hellenic pagan #greek gods #Ancient Greek gods #Ancient Greek goddesses #Greek goddesses #Ancient Greece #Ancient Greek myths #Ancient Greek mythology #greek mythology #Greek myths #Ancient Greek studies #classics #classical studies #upg #not really #but I guess sort of unverified personal gnosis #stop drinking the hallmark kool aid #love is radical #venus #aphrodite devotee #aphrodite devotion #venus devotee

[frithwontdie]

School spent $250k to “uproot white supremacy,” and test scores fell

[the-everqueen]

"curate your space" except that fandom could never tag for all the ways racism appears in the ecosystem, because that would require the people involved have an awareness of their own investment in white supremacy, and some willingness to divest from it.

#fandom discourse #whoops the disc horse #i DO intensely curate my space #but also it is. profoundly depressing sometimes. #to realize the full extent of people who SHOULD be your allies but in fact see you as nonhuman. #fandom racism

[the-badger-mole]

So, this isn't my original thought. I think it was in a TikTok, but honestly, I don't remember. There is this idea that humans are a plague on the earth and nature would be better without us. That is not true. As humans- as inhabitants of this planet and as members of the natural order/animal kingdom/what have you, we are as necessary to the planet as the ants and the antelopes. Indigenous peoples all over the planet learned how to thrive with their environments and even make improvements. The example that immediately springs to mind is how indigenous groups in America kept wildfires at bay by periodically setting controlled fires to clear underbrush and leaf litter. The problem isn't humans in and of ourselves. The problem is colonialism and white supremacy.

A few hundred years ago (and honestly, more like a couple thousand years because I think an argument could be made that this mess began with the Romans), powerful white people decided that the world was theirs to conquer and spread their 'wisdom'. They decided that they knew better than the they conquered how to be good stewards of the land around them. Practices like the controlled burns were stopped, slave trade brought farming practices that weren't necessarily compatible with the new lands, and the toll on the humans made to work in unsustainable conditions was ignored, and that essentially lead to the world we currently inhabit.

I can't take seriously anyone who says that 'people' are the reason why the world is in it's current state (blizzards with a body count; catastrophic flood in the middle east; whole sections of countries burning to ash). It's not humans as a whole that are the problem. We are a part of the environment. We have a place in the natural order. The problem is with a relatively small, but powerful portion of our population upholding systems that keep them in privilege in power, but are overall unsustainable to the planet.

Now, I hate when posts like this point out a problem, but don't give any suggested solutions, but the truth is, I don't know what to do with this revelation. The best I can tell you is to pay attention to your local politics. If you have any voice in your government, use it as best you can. In the US, that means vote in your even your smallest elections. Fight racism where you find it, and more importantly learn to see racism in policies that don't specifically mention race. Things like food desserts, lack of green spaces in urban areas, and the current housing crisis has deep roots in racism. The thing to remember is that when you fight for the most vulnerable among you, you fight for yourself. As humans we are just as important to our ecosystems as any other creature.

#thinking the thoughts that need to be thunk #badger mole muses #racism #anti racism #environmentalism #be the change #and all that jazz #us politics #THE YEAR OF CONTENT!!!!

[padawan-historian]

Black solidarity with Palestine against apartheid tomorrow and forever!

#our world #black lives matter #ecosystem of white supremacy #free palestine #solidarity with palestine against apartheid #zionism is not judaism #israel is an apartheid state #politics #our history is your history

[vergess]

Americans really believe that??? That sounds like cartoon villain shit there ain't no way.

I know, right, it sounds so fucking unhinged you'd think it has to be fake!!! But nope!

1 out of every 3 Christians in the USA unironically believes Israel only exists to fulfill an End Times Prophecy.

This is what we mean when we say Americans devalue the lives of Israelis in specific and Jews in general.

We are literally a BLOOD SACRIFICE TO THEIR GOD and they expect us to be GRATEFUL.

And yes!! It does sound cartoonish!

That's why I keep saying there is a clear cut, easy villain in this conflict.

It's the imperialists who literally want to sacrifice the middle east to their death cult to destroy the world.

But even among the majority of US Christians, the other 2/3?

Support for Israel is very strong for one other reason I haven't mad e as clear today as I usually do:

White Supremacy.

See, "exterminate the Jews in hellfire" isn't as popular a talking point post WW2 as it was in say the 1870s.

So what are you to do when you want to cleanse an ethnicity from your society, but it's uncouth to kill them?

Why, you take the filthy mongrels, and you push them over there!

It worked great for the US forced relocations of Indigenous people in north America, and for the forced removal of former slaves to Liberia! (Don't pay any attention to how many people died horrifically of the permanent damage done to global geopolitics and regional ecosystems or the way local political frictions between the forcibly relocated and the already present lead to endless generations of bloodshed. I'm sure none of that will be relevant.).

By having a handy shelf to put Jews on, white supremacists get to send us to one of the most politically unstable places on earth, with much of that instability literally caused by the US directly, and let two problems solve themselves. Jews AND Arabs killing each other, without the white people lifting a finger!

Do you have any idea how many Nazis LOVE the existence if Israel? It's a "proof of concept" that the US can create and sustain an ethnostate even in a very unstable region, AND it's an easy place to send Jews to go die! Wow! A two for one deal!

And let's go ahread and remind everyone while we're here:

ISRAEL DOES NOT ARM ITSELF. ISRAEL'S WEAPONS COME FROM THE US AND EUROPE SPECIFICALLY SO THAT ISRAEL CAN BE USED AS A FORWARD OPERATIONS CENTER IN THE REGION.

Anyway, the US wants a few things:

The destruction of jews

Access to holy lands

Access to oil rich regions

Creating, arming, and sustaining Israel gives them all 3.

#Asks #Answered asks #Anonymous #IP main

[brightgnosis]

The Generic Green (vs) The Cultivated Wilds (vs) The True Wilds, and Why People Don't Really "Like Nature" Like They Say They Do

“I love nature. I worship the Earth and the natural cycles” they say.

Meanwhile: Everything they do, right down to their holiday cycle, is based on an ecosystem and climate on another continent entirely, in a country they’ve never actually visited or ever lived in- and from another century not even remotely like our own, no less; they know nothing about their local ecoregion or microregion, let alone their own agricultural or pastoral culture (past or present, any of it); and the vast majority of them have little to no legitimate experience anywhere outside of a city.

In other words: I’ve found that most people don’t really “like nature” like they claim to … They like the generic green- and that’s not at all the same thing.

ETA: People frequently don't understand what I mean when I say “the Generic Green”- and that’s fair. But stuff like “Houseplants” are about as far from what I’m talking about as a bird is from a bee; similar form, but a completely different and frequently unrelated function- and an entirely different role to play.

When I say “the Generic Green”, what I’m talking about is people’s perceptions of nature revolving around the concept of the cultivated wilds. Specifically around an overly generic and romanticized idea of what “nature” and “wilderness” looks like, peddled predominantly by eco-spirituality books, and repeatedly perpetuated by people who’ve never actually stepped a single foot into a truly wild space.

The Holy Wild is honestly a great example of a shitty eco-spirituality book that perpetuates the hyper-romanticization of the Wild by people who don’t know what they’re talking about on any level … Though it is a slightly more extreme example of what I’m talking about, compared to what most people do and / or believe.

“The Generic Green” is essentially the equivalent of a stock photo of nature; a highly fictionalized and romanticized idea of a single highly localized type of nature, widely spread about as the epitomical image of what untouched nature looks like in its purest state. One which people latch onto and uphold as “nature” regardless of their own location or relative experience with any particular ecosystem.

It's a romanticization of ecosystems, and their various components, that the individual will never actually experience, because they’re not theirs and do not actually exist in relation to them; in the vast majority of cases they have zero relationship to it what-so-ever, and never will ... It's a landscape which exists, certainly, in a real corner of the world (or, at least, may have at one point in Human history). But for the vast majority of people? It will never be anything more than fiction for them. And yet still, somehow, it is upheld as the ultimate ideal that everyone aspires to create nature in the image of.

Whether we like to acknowledge it or not, this image- this stock photo- is heavily entertwined with white racism, white supremacy, and white colonialism. And eventually this is something we will also have to recon with as well.

The problem comes, largely, in that people interested in the Generic Green rarely ever actually step outside of that stock photo to get a legitimate look at the nature which exists directly around and in relation to them; they can’t identify a single tree of their own (though they might be able to identify a couple common flowers, or a couple common birds- that capability is usually by sheer luck and oversaturation, however). They don’t know what their Ecoregions are, let alone what Bioregion they’re a part of. They’ve never volunteered with any sort of wildlife services, or visited an open-boundary reserve. They have no idea what animals are native to their area, or what their habits are; etc, etc, etc.

That’s not to say that any or all of this is required to claim you “like nature”, mind you.  You don’t have to know any of this to claim you “like nature”. You just have to be properly aware of what nature actually is ... And it’s pretty safe to say that you don’t actually like "nature" nearly as much as you think you do if your idea of nature is basically a stock photograph; if you've never really experienced the real thing beneath your feet or put a foot into proper nature to begin with, in any actual capacity.

If that’s the case, you don’t actually like nature itself ... What you like, arguably, is the idea of it (a very specific, highly factionalized and romanticized, ultimately colonialist idea of it, at that). And that’s really, genuinely, not at all the same thing in the slightest.

ETA: I think some people have the mistaken idea that, because I’ve spoken about the differences between the “Generic Green”, the “Cultivated Green”, the “Cultivated Wilds”, and the “True Wilds” (and the weird hypocrisy of modern Paganism in regards to nature and the misrepresentation of their connection to it in light of those differences) ... That I’m some kind of a purist snob who thinks that the True Wilds are superior or something.

That isn’t the case. I’m not opposed to the Cultivated Green at all ... I'm literally a Master Gardener, and my very first Plant Spirit Ally was the Peony. My second was the Rose. Both are plants that’re very much cultivated to the point that hardly any of us have ever seen a genuinely wild cultivar, let alone see them as anything other than Ornamentals (though the Rose has retained significantly more of its metaphysical and medicinal history than the Peony has).

I am opposed to the Generic Green on some specific levels. But the Generic Green, to me, is still an okay starting place- an acceptable enough gateway- for people to initially step into “nature” through; to pique your initial interest in actually getting to know the natural world around you ... But it's one that should, ideally, eventually be discarded as one progresses; it's not something that should be held onto, or allowed to form one's entire idea or image of nature and what it's meant to look like, how it's meant to function, etc.

There’s also a lot to be said about the Generic Green itself, and its overall development and meaning. Additionally, there's a lot to be said for the irony and hypocrisy inherent in Paganism’s latching onto the Generic Green in particular and never actually letting go of it — or, if it does let go of it, trading it out for what is arguably a misrepresentation of the Cultivated Wilds instead (and, in turn, incorrectly positioning the Cultivated Wilds as the True Wilds when they're far from it). Likewise, there needs to be open discussion about the misunderstandings and misperceptions, and the blatant misrepresentations, of the True Wilds as a whole- especially by those who’ve never actually experienced them in the first place. And all of these discussions must be frank and deeply self reflective.

But it’s genuinely not that I uphold one as any more superior than the other, or think of any as inferior. The Cultivated Green, Cultivated Wilds, and True Wilds all not only have their own place in the everyday landscape and ecosystem, but also in spirituality in general. However: If you want to claim a spiritual connection to and emphasis on nature? Then you do need to understand these distinctions and what they mean not only for yourself, but also for your practice- and you need to know when you’re properly operating in one over the other.

Relevant and related tangent, here

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#Old Blog Reposts #Original Content #Original Witchy Content #Original Herbal Content #2021 #Paganism #Eclectic NeoPaganism #Religion & Magic #Oklahoma #Natural Connections #Green Witch #Green Witchcraft #Witchy Gardening #Witch's Garden

[plethoraworldatlas]

1. The ACC will train and employ 20,000 people in climate and clean energy jobs

The ACC will mobilize a new, diverse generation by training them in skills crucial to combating climate change—everything from installing solar panels to improving communities' natural disaster resilience to restoring critical ecosystems. And with a shortage of skilled clean energy workers, the ACC couldn’t come at a better time. We need more tradespeople, installing things like electric vehicle chargers and heat pumps, to decarbonize our economy. 

There’s an emphasis on building career pathways, not just jobs. To achieve this, the White House will partner with unions and is committed to providing members with the hard skills and transferable credentials that will allow them to find good-paying jobs or seek further training through apprenticeships and trade schools after their service. This includes potentially expanding access to scholarships and awards that would support post-secondary education and training or reduce student debt and streamlined pathways into civil service. The best part? No prior experience is required for most positions, and very few will require college degrees.

2. The ACC prioritizes equity and environmental justice

While the ACC draws upon the ambition of The New Deal and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, it also learns from its fundamental flaws.

FDR’s Corps lacked diversity, perpetuated white supremacy, and almost entirely excluded women, but Biden’s Corps puts equity and environmental justice at its core. It prioritizes communities traditionally left behind, including energy communities, whose lives have been dominated and shaped by the fossil fuel industry, and disadvantaged communities, who disproportionately suffer from a combination of environmental, economic, and health burdens.

The ACC follows the same targets of the administration’s Justice40 goal, where 40 percent of the benefits must be directed towards disadvantaged communities.

3. The ACC employs an all-of-government approach

The ACC is built on a hub-and-spoke model with AmeriCorps at the center. The White House is launching a dedicated ACC recruitment website, where participants can learn about and apply for opportunities in their communities, and across the country, that span all spheres of the clean energy economy.

The administration is partnering AmeriCorps with at least five other federal agencies (Department of Labor, Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Energy) to pool resources, coordinate recruitment, and fund corps members to work on specific projects that address the climate crisis.

Additionally, the administration will partner with at least 10 states. California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, and Washington have already launched similar programs, while five more (Arizona, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Utah) are creating their own Corps.

#enviromentalism #ecology #american climate corps #clean energy #green energy

[imanes]

this book is threatening to become my whole personality like the commentary on space colonisation and deforestation and the destruction of ecosystems to turn nature into resources and xenophobia and misogyny and who gets to be described as ‘human’ or ‘monster’ and the critique on military culture that is inherently steeped in white supremacy and a hatred for the ‘other’ and dehumanisation and alienation and the resistance against colonial violence and just the big military guy being the literal worst person on three different planets I just wish him a very die anyways long and incoherent story short I’m about halfway through and I’m rooting for the colonisers to die if the Athsheans don’t end up victorious I will riot but I don’t think Le Guin would ever make a horrible warmongering violent supremacist survive in her imaginary worlds especially not one that embodies American militaristic culture so horribly well. Also just the way she writes! Incredible. I’ll finish this book tonight or die trying