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This is a story about the day the doorbell rang. It's 2019. Pre-Covid. We're all sitting around the NuclearBan.US office, brainstorming, researching, tapping away on our computers as fast as we can, like squirrels getting ready for winter.
We're writing a report called "Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal", about how the three emergencies of climate, inequality, and nuclear weapons could be solved by combining two solutions: A good Green New Deal and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
We've been working with WILPF US to promote and add cosponsors to Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton's House bill to abolish nuclear weapons and shift the funding to green technologies. It's Warheads to Windmills in federal legislative form! We hope our report will add documentation to support the bill.
We also hope our report will help build bridges between the movements working on the three emergencies that threaten our existence: the climate crisis, unsustainable inequality, and nuclear weapons. There are so many connections: the biggest greenhouse gas emitters are pointing nuclear weapons at each other - hardly conducive to the unprecedented international cooperation we'll need to solve the climate crisis. Meanwhile, poor people, people of color, and indigenous communities suffer the most from climate disasters, whether it's global warming or nuclear winter, AND they also suffer disproportionately from fossil fuel and uranium production and pollution.
All three emergencies have the same root causes: greed, selfishness, shortsightedness, Big Money corrupting politicians. We believe that the more we all build intersectionality and solidarity between the three movements, the more power we will all have.
Digging into the details, we're trying to figure out what it would take to meet the IPCC targets for reducing greenhouse gases in time to avert the worst climate...