Politics and climate crisis: Towards an Eco-social New Deal

File Name: JG_Políticaycrisisclimatica_20200619
Title: Politics and climate crisis: Towards an Eco-social New Deal
Description: Conversation between Lourdes Pérez, Amy Huertas, and Ramón Cruz, with Gustavo García and Fernando Tormos as co-moderators from JunteGente, where they discuss the prevalence and dominion of northern voices and structures of privilege inside the new movements for climate justice. The participants focus on the issues of energy and fossil fuels, as well as their present and future impact on the communities most affected by need or exploitation. They establish the necessity of imagining new “bottom-up” eco-social deals, and a new democracy that includes the most affected communities in the decision-making processes. The participants point out the importance of developing solutions related to a just transition into a new eco-social an equitable system founded on the Puerto Rican context and the communities most affected by climate change.
Date Created: 2020-06-19
Place Created: Remote
Creator: JunteGente
Type: Other
Community Organization: JG: JunteGente
Emergencies: Environmental issues; Climatic changes; Political corruption; Debts, Public; Hurricane Maria, 2017; Incinerators--Puerto Rico--Peñuelas
Responses: Community organization