![]() By highlighting the creative individuals and organizations making change happen, she provides inspiration and encourages transformative action on climate and energy justice.Įxpertly written, impressively informative, insightfully thoughtful, and ultimately inspiring, Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy is a timely volume that deserves as wide a readership as possible." " Diversifying Power offers hope and optimism as Stephens shows how the biggest challenges facing society are linked and anyone can get involved to leverage the power of collective action. " Diversifying Power is just what is called for to lead the way toward a more equitable, resilient, and sustainable future." By highlighting the creative individuals and organizations making change happen, she provides inspiration and encourages transformative action on climate and energy justice. Stephens shows how the biggest challenges facing society are linked and anyone can get involved to leverage the power of collective action. The shift from a divided, unequal, extractive, and oppressive society to a just, sustainable, regenerative, and healthy future has already begun.īut structural change needs more bold and ambitious leaders at all levels, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with the Green New Deal, or the Secwepemc women of the Tiny House Warriors resisting the Trans Mountain pipeline.ĭiversifying Power offers hope and optimism. Inspirational stories of diverse leaders who integrate antiracist, feminist values to build momentum for structural transformative change are woven throughout the book, along with Stephens’ experience as a woman working on climate and energy. ![]() She looks at why we need to resist by investing in bold diverse leadership to curb the “the polluter elite.” We need to reclaim and restructure climate and energy systems so policies are explicitly linked to social, economic, and racial justice. ![]() Stephens takes a closer look at climate and energy leadership related to job creation and economic justice, health and nutrition, housing and transportation. ![]() All politics is now climate politics, so all policies, from housing to health, now have to integrate climate resilience and renewable energy. In Diversifying Power, energy expert Jennie Stephens argues that the key to effectively addressing the climate crisis is diversifying leadership so that antiracist, feminist priorities are central. With new leadership and diverse voices, we can strengthen climate resilience, reduce racial and economic inequities, and promote social justice. The inadequate and ineffective framing of climate change as a narrow, isolated, discrete problem to be “solved” by technical solutions is failing. The dominance of technocratic, white, male perspectives on climate and energy has inhibited investments in social change and social innovations. Many of the same leadership deficiencies that shaped the inadequate response in the United States to the coronavirus pandemic have also thwarted the US response to the climate crisis. Transformation to a just, sustainable renewable-based society requires leaders who connect social justice to climate and energy.ĭuring the Trump era, connections among white supremacy environmental destruction and fossil fuel dependence have become more conspicuous. For too long too many leaders have prioritized corporate profits over the public good, exacerbating climate vulnerabilities while reinforcing economic and racial injustice. The climate crisis is a crisis of leadership.
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