"The Pact for a Green New Deal": Visionary Roadmap From Canadian Coalition Launched
"A #GreenNewDeal is not a radical vision. It's a rational one. It works for everyone, not just big corporations and the fossil fuel industry."
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Organizers say The Pact for a Green New Deal is "an unprecedented opportunity to build justice and prosperity." (Photo: Common Dreams/CC)
A broad Canadian coalition representing scores
of groups unveiled a visionary roadmap on Monday for a Green New Deal that
tackles the climate crisis as well as social and economic justice.
The unprecedented changes in society necessary
to rein in global warming, according to organizers of the new effort, are also
"an unprecedented opportunity to build justice and prosperity."
That opportunity is laid out in The Pact for a Green New Deal.
The effort was launched at press conferences
in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver Monday—the same day a bleak report from the
United Nations detailed how the human-caused climate crisis and economic
activity have pushed up to a million plant and animal species to the brink of
extinction.
As of Sunday, organizers say, the pact has
been backed by 67 organizations, including Indigenous Climate Action, Migrant
Workers Alliance for Change, The Leap, and Climate Action Network – Réseau
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Dozens of noted
Canadian individuals are supporting the effort as well, including musicians
Rufus Wainwright and Neil Young, scientists David Suzuki and Christina Hoicka,
and actors Evangeline Lilly and Cobie Smulders.imat Canada.
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