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| *[https://actionnetwork.org/groups/blood-money-campaign Blood money campaign] is a collective of Myanmar activists fighting to stop oil and gas revenues reaching the Myanmar military junta. They call for targeted sanctions of the ''Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise'' (MOGE), impacting corporations like TotalEnergies, Petronas, PTTEP, and POSCO. Chevron has pulled out as a result.<br> | | *[https://actionnetwork.org/groups/blood-money-campaign Blood money campaign] is a collective of Myanmar activists fighting to stop oil and gas revenues reaching the Myanmar military junta. They call for targeted sanctions of the ''Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise'' (MOGE), impacting corporations like TotalEnergies, Petronas, PTTEP, and POSCO. Chevron has pulled out as a result.<br> |
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| <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''Both the climate and housing crisis have capitalist roots'''</span>
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| *For example, Blackstone, a private equity firm worth $153 billion, bought a real estate firm which owns 5000 units in Toronto. The company has a history of abusive tenants with high fees, rent hikes and aggressive eviction practices in mostly black, brown and low-income neighbourhoods. They also lobbied against rent control in California. -[https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Qv6QWvOLc/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Climate Justice Toronto]
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| ***Blackstone has invested in a company building private highways through the Amazon.
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| ***The firm set up an office in Israel. A previous Israeli minister of defense was hired to run it. -[https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Qv6QWvOLc/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Climate Justice Toronto]
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| | style="width: 21.7495%; background-color: #c51f84; border-color: #000000; height: 51px;" | <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''The working class pays for climate adaptation; the right to air conditioning'''</span>
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| *As temperatures rise, so does the need for cooling solutions in the home.
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| *In the Global North, central air conditioning is typically only accessible in higher priced rental units. The upfront price of a portable air conditioner falls on individuals. In both instances, higher electricity costs to stay cool in the summer fall on individuals.
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| *Several marginalized groups are at greater risk of heat-related death and illness (e.g. people who are houseless, the elderly, disabled people, low-income populations etc).
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| *Air conditioning is projected to account for a peak load of energy needs in countries where there is a greater access and need (e.g. India). In communities that have been exploited by the same system that privileges certain groups with access to air conditioning, a lack of such will also lead to heat-related death and illness. <ref>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/air-conditioning-should-be-a-human-right-in-the-climate-crisis/</ref>
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| ***E.g. in 2021, citizens of the capital of Niger located on the edge of the Sahara Desert, suffered through 100-degree-F heat for 174 days. In Basra, Iraq, the number of 100-degree-F days was 168.
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| ***At a temperature of about 90 degrees F, labor becomes unsafe, and if it climbs past 95 degrees F, the body can no longer cool itself, leading to illness and death. <ref>https://www.osha.gov/otm/section-3-health-hazards/chapter-4</ref>
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| ***If global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.5 degrees F), South Asia could experience more than twice as many unsafe-labor and life-threatening temperatures than it does today <ref>https://news.agu.org/press-release/deadly-heat-waves-will-be-common-in-south-asia-even-at-1-5-degrees-of-warming/</ref>
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| **There are presently maximum temperature bylaws for renters in many communities in so-called Canada, but not maximum temperature bylaws. Cooling spaces also need to be maximized to be accessible to more community members. Advocates are suggesting a 26 degree C bylaw for rental units, and that the cost should not fall on renters. <ref>https://cela.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1488-Extreme_Heat_and_Rental_Housing_Recommendations.pdf</ref>
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| *Retrofits have been used to justify evictions and steep rental increases. "Many building owners are using green and environmental retrofits to justify above-the-board rent increases. Retrofits are also used to rationalize the eviction of long-standing tenants, hoping to replace them with tenants willing to pay significantly more money." -[https://www.torontoenvironment.org/we_can_have_green_retrofits_without_renovictions Toronto Environmental Alliance]
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| *Both housing and climate injustice are deeply rooted in the forced displacement and removal of Indigenous Peoples from their territories, and continued oppression of Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island. The intentional removal of Indigenous Peoples from their language, food systems, land and overall way of life, make them significant targets of houselessness.
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| *In Toronto, Indigenous Peoples constitute around 23% of those experiencing homelessness/houselessness in the city, even though they make up only around 0.8% of the total population. Urban Indigenous Peoples are 8 times more likely to experience houselessness than non-Indigenous Peoples. <ref>https://www.homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/population-specific/indigenous-peoples#:~:text=In%20Toronto%2C%20Canada's%20largest%20urban,0.8%25%20of%20the%20total%20population</ref>
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