climatebrad | Climate Expert Bracken Hendricks: 'We Need To Know What We Want' @climatebrad | Uploaded November 2013 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
10/29/13: At the Sandy anniversary Forecast the Facts forum, Center for American Progress senior fellow Bracken Hendricks describes how society needs to not only divest from climate-polluting fossil fuels but also invest in a sustainable, equitable future.
"The fight against the bad stuff and pulling that money back has to happen. I want to really drive home a second piece of this: We need to know what we want. Because it's not enough to know what we don't want. And we need to get very busy building it, and we need to demand it."
"We need to be smart enough and insistent enough to demand a vision of a future we want to live in. It's not enough to oppose what we know is going to hurt us."
"The anniversary of Sandy in lower Manhattan is really a time to look at Wall Street, and how we can come together as people and have our collective voice be strong enough to make a difference in the face of very large pools of capital that, without us, are going to make a very grave mistake."
10/29/13: At the Sandy anniversary Forecast the Facts forum, Center for American Progress senior fellow Bracken Hendricks describes how society needs to not only divest from climate-polluting fossil fuels but also invest in a sustainable, equitable future.
"The fight against the bad stuff and pulling that money back has to happen. I want to really drive home a second piece of this: We need to know what we want. Because it's not enough to know what we don't want. And we need to get very busy building it, and we need to demand it."
"We need to be smart enough and insistent enough to demand a vision of a future we want to live in. It's not enough to oppose what we know is going to hurt us."
"The anniversary of Sandy in lower Manhattan is really a time to look at Wall Street, and how we can come together as people and have our collective voice be strong enough to make a difference in the face of very large pools of capital that, without us, are going to make a very grave mistake."
