{"id":590,"date":"2014-10-25T19:35:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=590"},"modified":"2014-10-25T19:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T23:35:39","slug":"beating-climate-change-by-retooling-the-economy-the-story-begins-in-navajo-country-by-mary-hansen-yes-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Beating Climate Change by Retooling the Economy\u2014The Story Begins in Navajo Country by Mary Hansen \u2014 YES! Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beating Climate Change by Retooling the Economy\u2014The Story Begins in Navajo Country by Mary Hansen \u2014 YES! Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI grew up without running water,\u201d Nichole Alex, a young woman from Dilkon, Ariz., says\u00a0in a video released by the activist group Black Mesa Water Coalition<\/a>. Alex grew up on the Navajo reservation in the rural Black Mesa region of Arizona, where for decades a controversial coal mine emptied the region\u2019s aquifer, leaving local wells dry.<\/p>\n

Many climate justice activists are refusing to be limited by the \u201cjobs or the environment\u201d dichotomy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI grew up traveling 20 miles to gather water,\u201d Alex continues. \u201cThat\u2019s not fair, that my community is being sacrificed to power the valley here.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1970, the Peabody Coal Company began mining on the reservation. Although tribal members were initially enthusiastic about the jobs the mine would provide, over time the relationship grew rocky. The company built a coal slurry pipeline that cut straight through the reservation and pumped billions of gallons of water from the Navajo Aquifer. Peabody mixed the water with coal and pumped the fluid mixture to a power plant in Nevada where the coal was burned to generate electricity for the nearby cities of Phoenix and Tucson, as well as other parts of the Southwest. But local people like Alex were left without access to water.<\/p>\n

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Beating Climate Change by Retooling the Economy\u2014The Story Begins in Navajo Country by Mary Hansen \u2014 YES! Magazine. Photo by\u00a0Scott* \/ Flickr. \u201cI grew up without running water,\u201d Nichole Alex, a young woman from Dilkon, Ariz., says\u00a0in a video released by the activist group Black Mesa Water Coalition. Alex grew up on the Navajo reservation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[76,555,615],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-black-mesa-water-coalition","tag-navajo","tag-peabody-coal-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}