“Buddhism” intersection “green”
From “Help Wanted“, an interview of Van Jones ‘93JD by Melinda Tuhus in the March/April 2009 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine (bolding mine):
Y: One of your key slogans, which comes out of your previous organizing work, is “Green jobs, not jails.” Is the large number of minorities in prison something you see as a rallying point, or is it too leftist or too maximalist to be effective?
J: I don’t think that most of America would sign onto that tomorrow, but there’s a logic here, with regard to the green economy. Fundamentally, the moral claim has to be that if you’re going to have a green economy you shouldn’t have any throwaway resources, you shouldn’t have any throwaway species, and you shouldn’t have any throwaway people, and that we shouldn’t just have a green movement about reclaiming thrown-away stuff. It should also be about reclaiming thrown-away lives and thrown-away communities.
