"So is it accurate to say as well that when controlled burning was banned over decades, the land grew thick then with vegetation and it dried out every summer, essentially creating huge kindling stocks for extreme and even more devastating forest fires than otherwise?"
"And what are some of the proposals, and what are some of the ideas that you would recommend the committee entertain in order to right that wrong?"
"all of these things are core Green New Deal tenets."
"injustice and colonization is part of what has led us to this climate crisis today."
"My bill would designate approximately 23 million acres of wild lands in the continental Northwest as wilderness."
"So up until the 1970's, the colonization and the displacement of indigenous peoples in the United States included banning a practice that we now know explicitly sequestered carbon."
"My bill would also help us meet the goals of the Paris Agreement by preserving large swaths of forests."
"That is why I introduced H.R. 1755, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, or NREPA."
"we need to stick to the science of the problem and worry about all of the injustice stuff later or separately."
"I am asking Congress to do four things: pass NREPA, pass a law requiring the Forest Service to incentivize preservation over timber sales, repeal the logging provisions in the infrastructure law, allo..."
"they are purchasing them in minority and low-income neighborhoods, specifically."