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We on the Left still constantly underestimate not only how heavily those costs will land on those with the least, but how heavily they'll land on everyone, especially young people.
At the extremes of inaction, the cost becomes civilization itself.
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This is basic planetary ethics.
It is also impossible, if the planetary crisis worsens sufficiently.
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Inaction guarantees irremediable injustices.
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As part of that, we've become dangerously intellectually lazy about what is—and isn't— just climate action.
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There is no short-term, limited gain we can make in the name of justice that justifies allowing massive, enduring injustices to spread through our inaction and delay.
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We need *more* voices for fairness, security and human rights in the climate debate.
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And they're not the voices we should amplify.
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Speed itself is justice.
The voices truly worth amplifying are the ones who demand more speed, speed that takes hold where it will help the most—in communities and regions that have been left behind, and are ready to leap forward.
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