A Progress 2025 Vision for Climate Justice

Oct 10, 2024

聽As communities in the United States Southeast reel from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and as Florida braces for the potentially catastrophic Hurricane Milton, the impacts of climate change are more apparent than ever.聽

The Heritage Foundation鈥檚 Project 2025 has a plan to accelerate climate change by cutting the size and scope of federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Weather Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, falsely claiming these agencies themselves are 鈥渙ne of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.鈥� It calls for the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change so the U.S. wouldn鈥檛 need to track, report, or reduce emissions.聽

determined that if all of the document鈥檚 climate-related recommendations were implemented, the U.S. would spew an additional 2.7 billion tons of climate-heating emissions into the atmosphere by 2030.聽Antonia Juhasz, energy, climate, and environmental justice author, analyst, and investigative journalist spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about what a progressive vision of climate justice could look like, as part of 大象传媒 Media鈥檚 ongoing .

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 大象传媒 in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.