I agree full-heartedly as a dutiful member of Citizens Climate Lobby. However, if we can’t pass this legislation with a Democratic political stack in place, then when?
None of those movements required any degradation of the living standards of the majority of people but at most just the elites or a particular class and then not substantially. Climate is a very different fight.
There are countless ways to improve living conditions while reducing emissions.
Free sustainable transport would stop the least privileged from having to fork over a third of their paycheck to auto and fossil fuel companies while freeing up billions spent on roads.
Making landlords accountable for energy wasting housing design would reduce energy bills.
Not invading countries for their gas and mineral reserves is pretty good for the people that live there.
A direct carbon tarriff distributed evenly by population would lift living standards for the underprivileged and give them the resources to make a choice for lower emissions options.
Right to repair, accountability for forced obsolescence or design faults and consumer rights decrease waste and benefit the poor immensely.
And statistically the Justice system still gives minorities harsher sentences for the same crime and are targeted more and union participation is down.