How climate change is affecting BIPOC communities – and how you can join the fight for solutions.
Friend, AG Rosenblum from Oregon here. As you know, we’ve had some serious heat here in the Pacific Northwest – deadly heat. Heat borne from the man-made climate crisis that we have a slim window to solve.
A lot is getting lost in this conversation, so I want to be clear: Ignoring our climate crisis is an act of racial injustice. Republican AGs are pushing legal and policy positions that continue a long history of injustice against communities of color, especially against Native Americans.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, climate change may force indigenous communities and tribal nations inland from the coast. In other regions, Native American communities are experiencing severe drought and farming challenges.
My Democratic Attorneys General colleagues and I know this, and we are ready to act on urgent climate solutions.
In Oregon, BIPOC communities have been hit hard in so many ways. This climate crisis is compounding every problem we had before – gaping inequalities, crumbling infrastructure, racial injustice – and exacerbating them.
If we don’t act fast, more lives will be lost and more communities will be displaced, especially in the most vulnerable margins of society. Dem AGs have taken more than 500 actions to block the Trump administration’s environmental destruction, but our work is far from over.
That’s especially true as Republican AGs try to block President Biden’s pro-climate executive orders and keep climate activists from being heard in court. Every time they fight to protect Trump’s climate legacy, Republican AGs are allowing injustices to be committed against BIPOC communities. While the movement for climate solutions is strong, we have to cut through some serious GOP aggression first.
Democratic AGs truly are “The People’s Lawyers” and DAGA is the only party committee devoted to electing more of them. Since 2016, we’ve won two-thirds of our targeted races, and with more than 30 AG seats up for grabs in the next two years, we need your support – will you chip in today?
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