Together, the global precariat and its allies — activists motivated by compassion, fear, solidarity, or clearheaded reason, and everyday people working for social-ecological change — constitute what is potentially the largest political force on Earth. Together we could build a better, more just, and more sustainable world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only thing that is stopping us is the belief that walls, borders, weapons, armies, politicians, and\/or gods will protect us<\/em> at the expense of others. Those who spread the latter beliefs — politicians, media networks, think tanks, and the fossil capital<\/a> that fuels them — are the enemies of reason, love, and humanity. They need to be fought with reason, love, and humanity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s coming to the point where that fight needs to be made visible and unmistakable in everything we do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To put things in the simplest terms possible: The global climate precariat — all of those whose lives and communities are endangered by the storms, floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, and wars produced or intensified by a destabilizing global climate system — are a vast segment of humanity. It is growing daily. 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