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@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters Here's an opportunity for speeding up change. Americans with four years of college or more are both the nation's highest emitters, driving the destructive and destabilizing effects of climate change...
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@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters ...and, college-educated Americans are also the demographic most likely to favor progressive candidates and policies.
theatlantic.com/education/arch…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters But a small continent of well-educated Americans holds the nation hostage, by bankrolling division in order to deregulate the economy.
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters Failing climate policies are just a macro-crisis spawned from the same dynamic, which has happened out in the open, uninterrupted, even after Sandy Hook. Universities welcome the same predators as donors. washingtonmonthly.com/2017/02/17/why…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters The point is, this is how American politics works. Wealth concentrates, and even though most of us would like not to spiral down, fractures in the electorate enable the well-educated wealthy to break the system for their own short-term purpose. vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/j…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters The Roman Republic went down in much the same way, 2000 years ago.
(Our advantage should be that we have lessons from history to learn from.)
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters What props up these predators, at the top of our economy, is the rest of us with college degrees or more. Particularly those of us with skills valuable to tech or finance. Criticism does little, but maybe there are ways to withdraw consent.
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters This is important too, and would be even better if led to Google turning its capacity towards prosocial information, on climate, for example.
vox.com/recode/2019/7/…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters Reforming the top universities is important. That's a conversation that needs to start ASAP, because they're like Patient Zero in this crisis. thecrimson.com/column/trans4m…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters If yesterday's and today's shooting horrifies us, remember that in our current scenario, John Paulson needs the NRA, and Harvard needs John Paulson.
thecrimson.com/article/2015/7…
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters For those of us with good educations, maybe ensconced in well-paying jobs, with pleasant lifestyles, the urgency and scope of relevant change will be a shock.
@bethsawin @newconsensus @CJAOurPower @IENearth @MoveGen @ECJP_NAACP @sunrisemvmt @ThisIsZeroHour @PSEquityMatters But every day shows how quickly that conversation has to start, at scale. (It should be mandatory at universities already.)

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