California Should Take OverCommercial Utility PG&E for Climate Justice - 29'
How California’s Fire Weary Public by Taking Over the Commercial
Utility Behemoth PG&E Could Cast a Vote for Climate
Justice
with
Johanna
Bozuwa is a Research Associate at the Democracy Collaborative which
works
to carry out a vision of a new economic system where shared ownership and
control creates more equitable and inclusive outcomes, fosters ecological
sustainability, and promotes flourishing democratic and community
life. Her research focuses on energy democracy and the
just transition away from the fossil fuel economy.
A long-awaited report of the federal
government, notwithstanding the climate destructionist policies and practices of
Trump, has delivered an unmistakable message on climate-fueled disasters: The
effects of climate change, including deadly wildfires, increasingly debilitating
hurricanes and heat waves, are already battering the United States, and the
danger of more such catastrophes is worsening and poses a severe threat to
Americans' health and pocketbooks, as well as to the country’s infrastructure
and natural resources. However the report avoids policy recommendations despite
its sense of urgency and alarm.
Now, amidst the potential bankruptcy
of the California utility PG&E, whose negligence is believed to have played
a role in California’s most recent devastating fire, along with three other
wildfires across the state in 2017, there is an opportunity for the public to
take control of the state’s energy destiny. California’s takeover could serve
as a model for other states fed up with the predatory practices of
investor-owned utilities and jumpstart a wider shift across the country toward
democratically controlled renewable energy.
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