Because race intersects with multiple aspects of people's identities, including their gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, it's imperative to use an intersectional approach when being antiracist.
I feel this brings up a great point about how we need to think deeper into racism and how some racist acts only affect a certain demographic of that race.
The antiracist position would be to at least consider enrolling your child and/or learning about the disparities and inequities affecting that school in order to fight them.
It is important to go steps further in getting rid of racism and to educate not only ones self but family as well in the differences between races. With racism you have to tackle the problem head on and not try and jump around it because it makes you uncomfortable.
sustainable consumerism gives people the feeling of being in power: they decide what they buy and therefore what is being produced. They punish unethical companies by boycotting them — or reward their ethical counterparts with “buycotting.”
This sense of power if is important to people as it makes them feel that they finally have a say in climate change. This is a good thing for people to realize because once people see that what they do does have real affects on people in power and to our environment, then real change starts to happen.
First, they show that the richest 10 percent are responsible for almost 50 percent of global CO2 emissions, whereas the poorest 50 percent together emit only 10 percent.
Hearing information like this is exactly why the average person feels they can do little to stop the effects of climate change. It hurts to know that such a little amount of people are doing so much damage to our environment that will hurt us more than it ever will hurt them.
The “disaster” results from our reactions, our decisions. If we are not careful, we envision societal collapse as something that happens to a group,
It's easy to give up when thinking about climate change. The problem is so huge that many people feel that they don't have any control over the outcome. With all the extreme weather happening all over the world to many it feels it is already too late.
These fantasies can hamper our ability to plan for and react to a more realistic scenario.
This paragraph sets out how we have to move on from the fear of what's to come and to act now to stop that fear from coming to reality. In the movies it's all very overwhelming and things happen quickly, but were not in the movies. We need to take action over many years not just 90 minutes.