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	<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''<span>Income and inflation don't just disappear/appear: our money is redistributed to the ultra-rich</span>'''</span>		<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''<span>Income and inflation don't just disappear/appear: our money is redistributed to the ultra-rich, who drive the climate crisis</span>'''</span>
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	*The International Energy Agency estimates that '''fossil fuel costs alone are responsible for 90% of current inflation costs, with gas alone accounting for half. <ref>https://www.iea.org/topics/global-energy-crisis</ref> '''Governments increase interest rates to combat this. When energy costs (and temperatures) rise, the cost of everything else rises.		*The International Energy Agency estimates that '''fossil fuel costs alone are responsible for 90% of current inflation costs, with gas alone accounting for half. <ref>https://www.iea.org/topics/global-energy-crisis</ref> '''Governments increase interest rates to combat this. When energy costs (and temperatures) rise, the cost of everything else rises.

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	***The President of COP 28 (the UN climate conference) is an fossil fuel executive, and more fossil fuel lobbyists registered for COP 27 than any other single delegation. <ref>https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/over-100-more-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-last-year-flooding-crucial-cop-climate-talks/#:~:text=The%20analysis%20finds%20that%20oil,compared%20to%20176%20last%20year</ref>		***The President of COP 28 (the UN climate conference) is an fossil fuel executive, and more fossil fuel lobbyists registered for COP 27 than any other single delegation. <ref>https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/over-100-more-fossil-fuel-lobbyists-last-year-flooding-crucial-cop-climate-talks/#:~:text=The%20analysis%20finds%20that%20oil,compared%20to%20176%20last%20year</ref>
	*Public money is often used to fund fossil fuel infrastructure, the profits of which are not circulated back to the public.		*Public money is often used to fund fossil fuel infrastructure, the profits of which are not circulated back to the public.
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	\| style="width: 21.7495%; background-color: rgb(197, 31, 132); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" \| <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''<span>Necessities for life should be publicly owned</span>'''</span>
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	*<span>This includes ownership over our energy, food and transit systems, among others.</span>
	*<span>Public ownership keeps money in communities, rather than lining the pockets of billionaires.</span>
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	\| style="width: 21.7495%; background-color: rgb(197, 31, 132); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" \| <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''<span>The Global South is less able to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis due to the debt crisis caused by the Global North</span>'''</span>		\| style="width: 21.7495%; background-color: rgb(197, 31, 132); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" \| <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''<span>The Global South is less able to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis due to the debt crisis caused by the Global North</span>'''</span>

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	Collective experiences of oppression cause a person to have less time/energy to worry about the climate crisis. In other words, our main goal should not be to unite the working class and the environmentalists, but above all to show the '''links between the two realities.'''		Collective experiences of oppression cause a person to have less time/energy to worry about the climate crisis. In other words, our main goal should not be to unite the working class and the environmentalists, but above all to show the '''links between the two realities.'''

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 Gastivists collective is a "small team of motivated people, active in a variety of climate and oppression-related struggles in several different countries." <ref>https://www.gastivists.org/</ref>  They developed the Spring is Coming campaign to address the systems of oppression that created the cost of living/economic crisis and the climate crisis with cohesive messaging.
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	\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 285px;" \| '''<span style="">Poverty increases vulnerability to the climate crisis</span>'''		\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 285px;" \| '''<span style="">Poverty increases vulnerability to the climate crisis</span>'''
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	*Those without access to vehicles or the funds to pay are vulnerable to being left behind when disaster strikes, as was evident in the 2023 wildfires when thousands of folks without housing and/or living in poverty in Yellowknife were left vulnerable. They were the last to be evacuated. <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CwD7q9UPKhO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==</ref>		*Those without access to vehicles or the funds to pay are vulnerable to being left behind when disaster strikes, as was evident in the 2023 wildfires when thousands of folks without housing and/or living in poverty in Yellowknife were left vulnerable. They were the last to be evacuated. <ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/CwD7q9UPKhO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==</ref>
	*<span>Wealthier people are the most sheltered from climatic events. They have access to air conditioning, the ability to move, access to resources.</span>		*<span>Wealthier people are the most sheltered from climatic events. They have access to air conditioning, the ability to move, access to resources.</span>
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	\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 78px;" \| '''<span style="">Precarious work/living in poverty requires juggling immediate survival needs</span>'''		\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 78px;" \| '''<span style="">Precarious work/living in poverty requires juggling immediate survival needs</span>'''
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	*<span>The climate crisis is often experienced less immediately than other daily challenges, particularly among people in [[precarious]] situations. </span>They must struggle on a daily basis to meet their basic needs (food security, housing, etc.)		*<span>The climate crisis is often experienced less immediately than other daily challenges, particularly among people in [[precarious]] situations. </span>They must struggle on a daily basis to meet their basic needs (food security, housing, etc.)
			*2022 saw open protests over food and fuel prices in half the world’s countries, including where the climate crisis presents high vulnerability. <ref>https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/surging-food-prices-fuel-protests-across-developing-world-2022-05-18/</ref>
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	\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 55px;" \| '''<span style="">Climate migrants are at risk of poor jobs/poverty</span>'''		\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 55px;" \| '''<span style="">Climate migrants are at risk of poor jobs/poverty</span>'''
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	*<span style="">Extreme weather events and massive resource extraction are increasing the migration of people seeking to survive. Climate migrants have less employment options in their new city, and are at a high risk of poverty, houselessness and food insecurity. <ref>Ahsan, R. (2019). Climate-induced migration: Impacts on social structures and justice in Bangladesh. South Asia Research, 39(2), 184-201.</ref> </span>		*<span style="">Extreme weather events and massive resource extraction are increasing the migration of people seeking to survive. Climate migrants have less employment options in their new city, and are at a high risk of poverty, houselessness and food insecurity. <ref>Ahsan, R. (2019). Climate-induced migration: Impacts on social structures and justice in Bangladesh. South Asia Research, 39(2), 184-201.</ref> </span>
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	\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 131px;" \| '''<span>These crises are rooted in the same systems of oppression, that benefit the same people</span><span style=""><br></span>'''		\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 131px;" \| '''<span>These crises are rooted in the same systems of oppression, that benefit the same people</span><span style=""><br></span>'''
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	*Both the climate crisis and the economic classes are rooted in the same systems of oppression and exploitation.		*Both the climate crisis and the economic classes are rooted in the same systems of oppression and exploitation.
	*Our economic system was built on, and continues to be powered by, fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency estimates that '''fossil fuel costs alone are responsible for 90% of current inflation costs. <ref>https://www.~~springiscoming~~.org/</ref> '''Governments increase interest rates to combat this. When energy costs (and temperatures) rise, the cost of everything else rises.		*Our economic system was built on, and continues to be powered by, fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency estimates that '''fossil fuel costs alone are responsible for 90% of current inflation costs, with gas alone accounting for half. <ref>https://www.iea.org/topics/global-energy-crisis</ref> '''''''''Governments increase interest rates to combat this. When energy costs (and temperatures) rise, the cost of everything else rises.
	*Fossil fuel CEO's profits ~~increased as~~ energy prices rose faster than they have in 40 years. <ref>https://www.~~springiscoming~~.~~org~~/</ref> Fossil fuel companies are given handouts of public money and tax incentives that are not offered to the working class majority. The same goes for billionaires in other industries.		*Fossil fuel CEO's profits doubled from 2021-2022 <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/business/energy-environment/exxon-chevron-profit-biden.html</ref> , while energy prices rose faster than they have in 40 years. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4s6SL8enI</ref>
	*Public money is often used to fund fossil fuel infrastructure, the profits of which are not circulated back to the public.		*Governments are enabling inequality and putting civilians at risk of poverty and the climate crisis. Fossil fuel companies are given handouts of public money and tax incentives that are not offered to the working class majority. The same goes for billionaires in other industries. E.g. The EU gives 56 billion euros in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry each year. <ref>https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fossil-fuel-subsidies-face-tighter-eu-scrutiny-2022-01-31/</ref> This is compared to the 17.5 billion euros the EU gives to support climate impacted European regions through their Just Transition Fund. <ref>https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/channel/sd-pedro-marques-explains-just-transition-fund</ref>
	*Taxing corporate profits to fund public infrastructure and loss and damage would address these intersecting crises		***Public money is often used to fund fossil fuel infrastructure, the profits of which are not circulated back to the public.
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	\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 51px;" \| '''<span style="">Necessities for life should be publicly owned</span>'''		\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 51px;" \| '''<span style="">Necessities for life should be publicly owned</span>'''
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	*<span style="">This includes ownership over our energy, food and transit systems, among others.</span>		*<span style="">This includes ownership over our energy, food and transit systems, among others.</span>
	*<span style="">Public ownership keeps money in communities, rather than lining the pockets of billionaires.</span>		*<span style="">Public ownership keeps money in communities, rather than lining the pockets of billionaires.</span>
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	\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 97px;" \| '''<span style="">The Global South is less able to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis due to the debt crisis caused by the Global North</span>'''		\| style="width: 231.266px; height: 97px;" \| '''<span style="">The Global South is less able to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis due to the debt crisis caused by the Global North</span>'''
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	*<span style="">Economic disparities exist between countries; some are better off by their domination over others. This means that there are disparities in the capacities of countries to prioritize the climate crisis and to respond to it by building the right infrastructure and building the resilience of communities. See our definitions page on the [[Global South]] for more.</span>		*<span style="">Economic disparities exist between countries; some are better off by their domination over others. This means that there are disparities in the capacities of countries to prioritize the climate crisis and to respond to it by building the right infrastructure and building the resilience of communities. See our definitions page on the [[Global South]] for more.</span>
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	\| style="height: 46px; width: 231.266px;" \| '''<span style="">[[Precarious]] work in climate action</span><br>'''		\| style="height: 46px; width: 231.266px;" \| '''<span style="">[[Precarious]] work in climate action</span><br>'''
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