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The Fossil Fuel Fight Isn’t Just in Congress It’s in Your Kitchen
Some communities are cracking down on natural gas extraction and consumption. The industry is responding with all-out war.
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The fight over American fossil fuel dependency is upon us. Earlier this week, Republican Senator Steve Daines of Montana put a hold on the full-chamber confirmation vote for President Biden’s pick for the Department of the Interior, Deb Haaland. “She opposes pipelines & fossil fuels,” was the reason given at the top of his statement.
The financiers and corporations behind the fossil fuel industry realize their window for a cash-grab is closing (if very slowly). On Tuesday, Wyoming Public Media reported that lawmakers such as Representative Liz Cheney have grounded their opposition to the Biden climate platform by repeatedly citing a study funded by a consortium of gas and oil companies. Those same companies have given Senator John Barrasso, one of Haaland�
Edna Bonhomme
Bonhomme’s work interrogates the archaeology of (post)colonial science, embodiment, and surveillance. A central question of her work asks: what makes .
morepeople sick. As a researcher, she answers this question by exploring the spaces and modalities of care and toxicity that shape the possibility for repair. Using testimony and materiality, she creates sonic and counter-archives for the African diaspora in hopes that it can be used to construct diasporic futures. Her practices troubles how people perceive modern plagues and how they try to escape from them. Bonhomme earned her PhD in History from Princeton University in 2017. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. She has written for Africa is a country, Mada Masr, The Baffler, The Nation, and other publications.
Yet, few of them knew about the ways that African diasporic communities were affected. As a person with Haitian parents, I am very much aware of how, when HIV/Aids emerged as a modern-day epidemic in major cities in the US, Haitian immigrants were erroneously deemed responsible. On 4 March 1983, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed four supposed groups as a “high risk” for contracting or transmitting HIV/Aids: homosexuals, heroin users, haemophiliacs and Haitians. Being part of this “4 H club” – the only group to be included on the basis of nationality – meant that Haitians and their descendants were denied housing, employment and admission to school, leading to the formation of segregated communities like the one I grew up in, Little Haiti in Miami – which was deemed a no-go zone for non-Haitians. During this lesson, we unpacked how these fears destroyed lives.