San Francisco
Klein elucidates, “The mood was fierce, too, in San Francisco, when more than a thousand student strikers shared stories of living with chronic asthma because of polluting industries in their neighborhoods-and then getting a whole lot sicker when wildfire smoke choked the Bay Area just a few months before the strike. The testimonies were similar at walk-outs all over the Pacific Northwest, where smoke from record-breaking fires had blotted out the sun for two summers running.” The industries emissions are the direct cause of asthma. Suffering from asthma motivates individuals to participate in walkouts that would help them to relay their grievances concerning the extreme pollution in San Francisco. The omnipresent smoke infers that the Bay Area is absolutely polluted; hence, it is unsafe. So, apart from triggering climate change, air pollution contributes to ailments such as asthma.
Australia
Klein confirms,"This generation of Australians has decided it simply cannot pretend that everything is normal. Not when, at the start of 2019, the South Australian city of Port Augusta had reached an oven-worthy 121 0F ( 49.5 0C).Not when half the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest natural structure made up of living creatures, had turned into a rotting underwater mass grave. Not when, in the weeks leading up to the strike itself, they had seen bushfires combine into a massive blaze in the state of Victoria, forcing thousands to feel their homes.” Extreme, rising temperatures in Port Augusta are indicators of global warming. The decomposition of the Great Barrier Reef is attributed to climate change; survival of organisms in the reef is imperiled due to the decomposition that terminates habitats of various organisms within the reef. Bush fires display the reality of changing climate and global warming in Australians. The fire destroys humans and other organisms; hence, climate change is an emergency in Australia.
“New Deal”
Klein proposes, “We need changes of different quality and character. We need wind and solar power that is distributed and, where possible, community owned, rather than the New Deal’s highly centralized, monopolistic river-damming hydro and fossil fuel power. We need beautifully designed, racially integrated zero-carbon urban housing, built with democratic input from communities of color-rather than the sprawling white suburbs and racially segregated housing projects of the postwar period.” The proposed deal would guarantee that eco-friendly investments and resources are devolved so that they can be utilized by individuals in various social and racial categories. Devolution of eco-friendly resources would encourage the society and all the members to strive towards the war on climate change. Civilians should be given power to conserve their environments so that they will not feel that the government is excluding them. Partnerships between the government and civilians would differentiate the New Deal from previous deals that are not inclusive.
