{"id":382246,"date":"2018-10-24T20:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-good-liberals-wont-save-the-climate\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:28:55","slug":"why-good-liberals-wont-save-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-good-liberals-wont-save-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u201cGood Liberals\u201d Won\u2019t Save the Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate justice communities blockade corporate greenwash. Photo via Brook Anderson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cShallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.\u201d<\/em>
\u2013Martin Luther King Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve known for a long time not to believe the false rhetoric of \u201cgood liberals\u201d like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Jerry Brown. In rare moments, we\u2019re able to draw a stark contrast between them telling us that they \u201cfeel our pain\u201d and the harsh reality their policies have on our communities.<\/p>\n

Last month, in downtown San Francisco, California Gov. Jerry Brown attempted define his legacy of \u201creal climate leadership\u201d with the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS). With GCAS, Brown provided an opportunity for governors, mayors, corporate lobbyists and the environmental non-profit industrial complex to network, hobnob and announce major initiatives for climate action. The ultimate goal was to contrast the climate initiatives of \u201cgood liberals,\u201d like Brown, to the climate denial politics of the Trump White House. The CEOs of SalesForce, Kaiser and Unilever, as well as AFL-CIO president Richard Trumpka celebrities like actor Harrison Ford and musician Dave Matthews, and of course, Al Gore showed up to promote a business friendly climate agenda to the world.<\/p>\n

Technology and profit driven solutions were the planet-saving theme of the week. Crowds of adoring…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Climate justice communities blockade corporate greenwash. Photo via Brook Anderson. \u201cShallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.\u201d\u2013Martin Luther King Jr. We\u2019ve known for a long time not to believe the false rhetoric of \u201cgood liberals\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}