CLIMATE JUSTICE

 

At a time of climate emergency, we must lead with climate resiliency and restore balance to threatened ecosystems, communities and cultures. Our Climate Justice and Community Resiliency Project works to slow climate change while we jump-start an infrastructure of community care and building of more equitable systems.

What We’re Doing

 

While the focus has been on fossil fuels, modern corporate animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change and a major destroyer of land and water resources. Lands once Indigenous and stewarded by balanced earth focused principles are now colonized by the footprint of massive industrial animal factories that both consume and pollute huge quantities of our nonrenewable waters at a time of scarcity and increasing drought. Climate CAFOS and Colonization is a collaborative partnership to end patriarchal oppression in the industrial food complex that chronically harms our environment, BIPOC communities and accelerates global warming through methane that is . Like fossil fuel pipelines, this is a climate and social justice frontline to eradicate corporate profiteering within communities who are the best and closest safeguards to our environment - but who have been excluded intentionally by a system that perpetuates inaccess and insular decision making.

Methane - the Moment is Now: Very significantly, the dairy industry presents the ideal opportunity to finally shine a light on what contributes to 25% of all global warming: methane. While CO2 has a longer lasting effect, methane has 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during the first 20 years of reaching the atmosphere and the concentration of atmospheric methane is increasing faster now than ever. Bottom line: Cutting methane emissions now is the fastest opportunity to immediately slow climate change and a key opportunity with the new EPA Methane rules to engage BIPOC grassroots organizers. By focusing on methane, we can leapfrog to a larger gaping hole in environmental protection: in the US, CAFOS are not regulated under the Clean Air Act even though the pollutants impact the health of many, especially children. Mapping critical legislative and policy opportunities using methane in the context of dairy CAFOS as the carrying agent could give us much needed momentum.

“NO” to more racist patriarchal systems and a “YES” to community systems of collective liberation where we heal and feed BIPOC communities, protect Mother Earth, acknowledge and amplify the power of existing leaders, and infuse traditional environmentalism with traditional wisdom for scalable solutions now.

 
 

 Climate Justice

At a time of climate emergency, we must lead with climate resiliency and restore balance to threatened ecosystems, communities and cultures. Our Climate Justice and Community Resiliency Project works to slow climate change while we jump-start an infrastructure of community care and building of more equitable systems.

 

While the focus has been on fossil fuels, modern corporate animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change and a major destroyer of land and water resources. Lands once Indigenous and stewarded by balanced earth focused principles are now colonized by the footprint of massive industrial animal factories that both consume and pollute huge quantities of our nonrenewable waters at a time of scarcity and increasing drought. Climate CAFOS and Colonization is a collaborative partnership to end patriarchal oppression in the industrial food complex that chronically harms our environment, BIPOC communities and accelerates global warming through methane that is . Like fossil fuel pipelines, this is a climate and social justice frontline to eradicate corporate profiteering within communities who are the best and closest safeguards to our environment - but who have been excluded intentionally by a system that perpetuates inaccess and insular decision making.

Methane - the Moment is Now: Very significantly, the dairy industry presents the ideal opportunity to finally shine a light on what contributes to 25% of all global warming: methane. While CO2 has a longer lasting effect, methane has 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during the first 20 years of reaching the atmosphere and the concentration of atmospheric methane is increasing faster now than ever. Bottom line: Cutting methane emissions now is the fastest opportunity to immediately slow climate change and a key opportunity with the new EPA Methane rules to engage BIPOC grassroots organizers. By focusing on methane, we can leapfrog to a larger gaping hole in environmental protection: in the US, CAFOS are not regulated under the Clean Air Act even though the pollutants impact the health of many, especially children. Mapping critical legislative and policy opportunities using methane in the context of dairy CAFOS as the carrying agent could give us much needed momentum.

“NO” to more racist patriarchal systems and a “YES” to community systems of collective liberation where we heal and feed BIPOC communities, protect Mother Earth, acknowledge and amplify the power of existing leaders, and infuse traditional environmentalism with traditional wisdom for scalable solutions now.

 
 

 Climate Justice

At a time of climate emergency, we must lead with climate resiliency and restore balance to threatened ecosystems, communities and cultures. Our Climate Justice and Community Resiliency Project works to slow climate change while we jump-start an infrastructure of community care and building of more equitable systems.

 

While the focus has been on fossil fuels, modern corporate animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change and a major destroyer of land and water resources. Lands once Indigenous and stewarded by balanced earth focused principles are now colonized by the footprint of massive industrial animal factories that both consume and pollute huge quantities of our nonrenewable waters at a time of scarcity and increasing drought. Climate CAFOS and Colonization is a collaborative partnership to end patriarchal oppression in the industrial food complex that chronically harms our environment, BIPOC communities and accelerates global warming through methane that is . Like fossil fuel pipelines, this is a climate and social justice frontline to eradicate corporate profiteering within communities who are the best and closest safeguards to our environment - but who have been excluded intentionally by a system that perpetuates inaccess and insular decision making.

Methane - the Moment is Now: Very significantly, the dairy industry presents the ideal opportunity to finally shine a light on what contributes to 25% of all global warming: methane. While CO2 has a longer lasting effect, methane has 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during the first 20 years of reaching the atmosphere and the concentration of atmospheric methane is increasing faster now than ever. Bottom line: Cutting methane emissions now is the fastest opportunity to immediately slow climate change and a key opportunity with the new EPA Methane rules to engage BIPOC grassroots organizers. By focusing on methane, we can leapfrog to a larger gaping hole in environmental protection: in the US, CAFOS are not regulated under the Clean Air Act even though the pollutants impact the health of many, especially children. Mapping critical legislative and policy opportunities using methane in the context of dairy CAFOS as the carrying agent could give us much needed momentum.

“NO” to more racist patriarchal systems and a “YES” to community systems of collective liberation where we heal and feed BIPOC communities, protect Mother Earth, acknowledge and amplify the power of existing leaders, and infuse traditional environmentalism with traditional wisdom for scalable solutions now.