OUR BURNING PLANET: ANALYSIS: No tomorrow, Part Three: The climate blindness of EFF and the rest By Kevin Bloom kevbloom
Instead of calling out the ruling party for its failure to connect the dots on these extreme weather events, we get lines in the EFF manifesto like the following:The EFF government will work hand in glove with traditional leaders as well as Contralesa on diverse issues that include … climate change and the Green Revolution.”
South Africans do not concern themselves with the environment, because of the notion that ‘it’s someone else’s problem’.”, we get an unambiguous link drawn between social justice and climate justice — as contained in the statement that “it is imperative that the poor be uplifted to rescue our environment from permanent damage”.
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