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Originally Posted by freerover
You're being very generous calling them "environmentalists". It's more like they don't want their literal environment to change. They don't care (nor do they understand) sustainable living. They would rather 1000 single family homes decimate farmland in manor than 1000 housing units go up on an industrial site where people have easy access to bus and bike lanes to mitigate car usage.
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I very much agree that I was being generous. The group suing - PODER - was using an SOS lawyer and mainly citing environment concerns. But here is their director's statement on their mission:
"The struggle of our ancestors continues to resound. The ancestral memory of humanity, the legacy of the Indigenous Peoples of the world strengthens us and gives us a mandate. The emergence of a new sun, the arrival of a moment of equilibrium even amidst the climate chaos crisis, the generational struggle against institutionalized injustices, colonization, genocide, and terracide, calls us to synchronize ourselves in an agenda of self-determination and healing as Original Nations of Mother Earth.
Like the weather, 2024 had its share of highs and lows. Life provides unlimited challenges. In 2024, we faced our share at PODER but we kept our focus and forward momentum. We expect those challenges to escalate in 2025 but they are what give environmental justice organizations like ours its purpose."
https://www.poderaustin.org/
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