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Exporting Socialist authoritarianism to replace other authoritarianism in Central America

All or Nothing: A Green New Deal for Central America

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The US, Canada, China and Europe are the world powers which have contributed to the fast deterioration of the quality of life of Central Americans through exploitation schemes and political pressure. From the destruction of local economies as a result of the signing of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), to the reinforcement of commercial policies which avoid compliance with human rights, and to the Association Agreement between the European Union and Central America, which protects and consolidates the domination and control by large corporations of the energy matrix of Central American countries. (snip)

Would it be possible for the developed world to imagine a moratorium for the countries which are the most unequal, violent and vulnerable to climate change, allowing their people enough flexibility to exceptionally apply another economic model? Clean energy? Decent jobs? Native seeds?

Central America accounts for 7% of the world’s biodiversity despite its small size. It leads the ranking of the most unequal countries in the world and of the poorest countries in the Americas, and it is home to four of the fifty most violent cities in the world. If economic slowdown is added to extreme vulnerability to climate change, lack of active public inclusion policies for women and marked racism to indigenous and Afro-descendant populations, it is obvious that the number of people willing to migrate to the North, even risking everything, will only increase.

A Green New Deal for Central America would allow for the possibility of conducting pilot testing, giving concrete shape to and defending a different future – no longer as an idea, but as a proven reality. Replacing fragile and failed institutions with architecture that results from economic and ecological transformation, empowering indigenous and peasant communities, regaining control of the natural commons, reversing the fast disappearance of unique species, preserving the remaining oxygen reserves in the region, compensating Central American countries for the impact that 10% of the world inflicts on them, putting them on the map of the countries most at riskfrom the global climate crisis. These changes do not depend on the congresses of these countries. They depend on Washington, Brussels and the international financial institutions.

First, are you getting the idea that this so-called Green New Deal push has almost nothing to do with either the environment nor ‘climate change’? Second, it’s rather strange that 1st World nations get blamed for the problems in Central America, then the blamers want to ignore the lawmakers of those Central American nations to allow the 1st World nations to dictate policy.

This humanitarian crisis summarizes the failures of the system that the world inflicts on the poor, pushing them to cross seas and deserts, and to risk everything while seeking a better life. At the same time, it is also an opportunity for a radical change, for transcending discourses which promise palliative “sustainable futures” that nobody is willing to finance. It is an opportunity for raising international solidarity on the basis of a concrete plan – beyond words and paper.

If the Green New Deal does not work here and now, if it cannot surpass humanitarian camp reactions and massive exoduses and produce a positive agenda, tomorrow will be too late. If we seal a new social contract, we must include everyone, we must make sure that no one is left behind – starting with those to whom we owe the most.

Da, comrade. You will be forced to comply. Enforced poverty for all, with government in complete control of your life.

Read: Central America Needs A Green New Deal Or Something »

Warmists would prefer an authoritarian government, I suspect. Seriously, have you ever noticed that all these Modern Socialists say our democracy is broken when they can’t get their way over the will of the People?

The US Can’t Fight Climate Change Until It Fixes Its Broken Democracy

… (a couple paragraphs on warming, which doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation)

As a society, we must act decisively to avoid the coming climate crisis by weaning ourselves off our dependence on fossil fuels and shifting to a carbon-free economy by mid-century. But despite growing public support for government intervention, the U.S. Congress has been unable to pass legislation that meaningfully addresses this issue. That’s for one reason: our system of governance is fundamentally flawed, and genuine change cannot happen as long as industry money lines pockets in Washington.

In other words, we cannot save our planet until we fix our broken democracy.

In 2009, ambitious climate legislation almost passed Congress with bipartisan support. South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham was even a co-sponsor. Yet, today, the most basic regulations to limit carbon emissions are politically dead-on-arrival. Indeed, the Republican Party now holds climate denialism as doctrine. Since 2010, no legislation to regulate carbon dioxide has gotten a single Republican co-sponsor in the Senate.

What has changed since Senator Graham acknowledged climate change? The leaders of a multibillion-dollar industry recognized that their livelihood was under threat, and they responded.

See, it’s those darned companies, comprised of people, which are the problem! How dare they petition the government, protest peaceably, and engage in Free Speech! We’re supposed to only listen to the climate cult companies which dump enormous amounts of money into campaigns!

The fossil fuel industry’s outsized influence is undemocratic. And it should trouble all Americans that profit-driven corporations have established an influence that works in direct opposition to the wellbeing of voters – both present and future – and their preferences.

Despite the circulation of special interest talking points, the vast majority of Americans support climate action, including Republican voters.

Do I have to mention that most climate cultists refuse to give up their own fossil fueled vehicles and travel? Or that most citizens refuse to pay more than $10 a month for ‘climate change’?

This inaction is fundamentally unfair to my generation.

The only way to prevent this injustice is to democratize campaign financing. As long as established industries hold overwhelming sway throughout Washington, our democracy will be compromised, and voters demanding climate action will be ignored.

Naomi Truax doesn’t explain what she means, but, diving into previous reading of mine, this means that the government funds all campaigns. There would be no donations to campaigns allowed. Some have even suggested that no outside money may be spent on politics. No ads or such in support or deterrence of policies or politicians. What could go wrong?

Is it necessary to mention that this would cause more problems for Democrats, who rely on all that money flowing from outside of states, from places like Hollywood, for state and federal elections? Without it, there would be no Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez, who received the vast majority of monetary support from outside not only here district, but NY state. Stacy Abrams wouldn’t have even been close. Beto would have seen his senate campaign die early.

Read: HotCold Take: We Refuse To Ruin Our Lives Fighting ‘Climate Change’ Because Our Democracy Is Broken »