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Professor | Climate justice | Green New Deal | Just transitions l End fossil fuels | BlackLivesMatter | #CeasefireNow
May 17, 2023 16 tweets 6 min read
The fossil fuel industry's impact on public health is undeniable. Our new study maps out the disproportionate harms at every stage of the coal, oil, and gas lifecycles for Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor communities. (1/n) #fossilfuelracism bit.ly/FFRacism Image The study by @quinn43, @CPichonBattle, @charlieyj12, & me, reveals how racial injustices permeate every stage of fossil fuel production. Fossil fuels require "sacrifice zones," which disproportionately impact Black, Brown, Indigenous, & poor people. (2/n) bit.ly/FFRacism
May 25, 2022 17 tweets 8 min read
We've long known that climate change worsens inequality. But does the cause and effect go the other way, too? Yes! A new study by @fergusgreen & myself shows that inequality fuels climate change. Implication: We need a Green New Deal! (1/n)

No Pay Wall: bit.ly/InequalityFuel… Our study shows a clear ‘climate case’ for tackling inequality. Mandatory living wages, billionaire wealth taxes, pandemic profiteering taxes, and pro-union reforms shouldn't be seen as a progressive wish list-but rather a key plank of climate policy (2/n)
bit.ly/InequalityCC
Apr 9, 2020 31 tweets 17 min read
Our new study examines @AOC|@EdMarkey's GND resolution & @BernieSanders $16.3 trillion GND.

We address 2 questions:
(a) How can we pay for the #GND?
(b) In what ways do social welfare policies relate to tackling the climate crisis?

*Open access* (1/n)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Ray Galvin (1st author) isn’t on twitter. So I’ll summarize:
✅Sanders #GND is economically sound
✅We can afford a Green New Deal
✅There is fiscal space
✅Social welfare programs needed for CO2 reduction

A 🧵 of how we came to these findings (1b/n)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Oct 23, 2018 16 tweets 9 min read
"Embodied energy injustices: Unveiling and politicizing the transboundary harms of fossil fuel extraction and fossil fuel supply chains".

New paper with @jenniecstephens & @stephmalin_soc

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sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Energy decisions have transboundary impacts. Yet assessments of large-scale energy infrastructure (e.g. EIS) rarely consider upstream/downstream emissions. Justice implications are completely omitted. Net effect = incomplete & flawed energy decisions (2)