'Our generation must rise to this moment in history and fight — our lives depend on it.'
, and another five were in the slow process of dying. After hearing this news, I was unable to sleep; I couldn’t stop thinking of how brutal the future of my people could be on a hotter planet. Higher temperatures will cause more deaths, and drought and other extreme weather will create even more refugees as people leave homes that are no longer livable.
As a Latino kid born and raised in Miami, I’ve known about the threats of a warming world for as long as I’ve been alive. I remember the fear I felt as a toddler when the roaring winds of Hurricane Katrina made steel structures sway in the building where I lived with my mother. In high school, Hurricane Irma barreled through Miami, hitting poor, Black, and brown communities the hardest. In the aftermath of that storm, the wealthy, white kids got power back in their homes far sooner than I did.
The story of how we got here begins decades ago. In the twentieth century, as a response to massive wins by social movements like the civil rights, environmental, labor, and feminist movements, a dangerous right-wing alliance of corporate executives and white supremacists began a decades-long project to. They formed a coalition to dismantle their common enemy: democracy.
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