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Van Jones, founder and president of Green For All, spoke to the 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference on February 6 (Part 1 of 3).

It was a renegade minority in Europe that said… we don’t see this as a planet now, we see it as a plantation… That’s not a tree, that’s lumber. That’s not an animal, that’s a pelt… you’re great grandmother said no this is wrong. This is precious. This is sacred. That river is sacred, that tree is sacred. Don’t mess this up. Don’t destroy this. And the colonizers said… we can put a price tag on everything. Including you.

If we just stop at a clean energy revolution, but we don’t deal with how we’re dealing with water, and food, and waste and toxics and how we treat each other — all we are gonna have is solar-powered bulldozers, solar-powered buzz saws, and biofuel bombers to fight wars for lithium for batteries rather than oil and we’ll still have a dead planet in a hundred years. So this movement is a profound movement. This movement represents the best hopes of a people, a nation, a species to take the best of The West… and marry it to the best of the indigenous wisdom and create a new world.

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