When the inexorable power of climate change joins forces with the proven effectiveness of DEI leadership, possibilities emerge that can deliver social justice at scale.
Our hearts go out to Hollywood millionaires who lost one of their many fabulous homes to Mother Gaia’s fiery fury. But rejoice that clearing so much stolen land taken from indigenous people by white settler colonialists will finally make it possible to build a permanent sanctuary for long-suffering Palestinians.
A bold plan proposed by a coalition of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters at Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and UVA calls on Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to use eminent domain to seize property destroyed by climate change wildfires. Rather than allowing greedy millionaires to rebuild high carbon footprint exclusionary mansions, a 15-minute city of high-density, affordable housing should be constructed in their place.
And who is more deserving to move into new solar-powered, compost toilet homes than Gazans whose homes were destroyed by genocidal Israelis?
Sure, the People State of California can’t even afford to pump water to its fire hydrants. But this humanitarian project, which shall be named Carter Acres to honor the late, great homebuilder and Palestinian pal Jimmy Carter, can be completely financed with money donated by Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Bahrain. After all, no one would be happier to see not just displaced Gazans but every Palestinian brother in the Middle East move 7,500 miles away.
In a rare burst of bipartisanship, both California Governor Gavin Newsom and President-elect Donald Trump reacted positively to the proposal, agreeing that this is exactly what California deserves.