Thread by @triofrancos

One of the thorniest aspects of the climate crisis is the fact that many workers make a living (& support broader communities) from work that is environmentally destructive. The workers in this category is broader than usually envisioned in the "Just Transition" frame 1/

@BueRubner calls these "batshit jobs": "when making a living is also a part of unmaking life on many scales: becoming sick from pollutants, destroying local environments, destabilizing the global climate"... 2/
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... and suggests a creative panoply of organizing tactics that have and might address this contradiction, which is "a contradiction not only between capital and labour, but within labour itself." 3/

This is a key hurdle to achieving a radical #GreenNewDeal, which will be impossible without both labor's active support and workers' disruptive capacity. 4/

Of course, the supposed & simplified conflict between "environmentalists" and "labor" is often cynically used to drive a wedge between leftists and among social movements, as explained well in a recent episode of @CitationsPod w @meeshellchen 5/ soundcloud.com/citationsneede…

And the idea that organized labor is on the whole 'against' the GND is - false, as shown by @DataProgress & reported by @AlexCKaufman 6/ huffpost.com/entry/green-ne…

One thing we need, argues @rsgexp, is for unions to engage in their own internal political education around how the climate crisis affects workers and their communities 7/ jacobinmag.com/2019/03/green-…

How can ecosocialists play a constructive role here? @theemrhammer has some great ideas. But we need to keep having this conversation in @DSA_Enviro, and within our chapters and movements 8/ dsabuild.org/labor-gnd