section-disaster_tech

These are CIEJ’s guiding principles for Green New Deal supporters who believe in expanding the GND cosmovision beyond US / Global North-centric techno-optimism. Don’t reduce the problem to temperature and CO2.Climate change refers to a long-term change in weather patterns, including temperature, precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events such as droughts and hurricanes. The earth … A Challenge to Green New Deal Activists: We Need to Reject “Sustainable” Technologies That Reproduce Colonial Gold Rush Devastation on Indigenous Peoples

We are facing an accelerating water transition. Justice is not assured. In North America, ecosystemic disruption, infrastructural failure, and social inequity remain deeply entangled. The “color of water”—the racialized dimensions of water policy—has been evident in Flint, Michigan, and other majority-Black cities with lead-tainted water, like Newark and Baltimore; in the Colorado River Basin, where … Rethinking Relief for Just Water Transition

On the second night of Storm Uri’s landfall in central Texas in February 2021, I could see downtown Austin’s lights ablaze from the highest point of my neighborhood on the other side of I-35, the highway that runs north and south along the eastern edge of the city center. On the side of the divide … Infrastructural Collapse and Disaster Preparedness in Austin, Texas

Mexico City is digging in to prepare for a wetter—and rapidly sinking—future. Like Jakarta and New Orleans, much of the metropolis of twenty-two million is literally falling under the weight of its own growth. A century of unrelenting groundwater pumping has led to runaway land subsidence, with no clear short- to medium-term solution. This undermines … Socialize Flooding: Creating Collective Sacrifice Zones in Mexico City