The radical “Environmental Justice” agenda is one of the many pet projects packed inside the massive so-called “Build Back Better” (BBB) bill. “Environmental Justice” is a movement advocating that rocks, trees and water should have constitutional rights—just like humans!

We need your help to stop this bill in the Senate. It erases human rights in favor of pushing rights for rivers and trees while wasting trillions of dollars to radicalize the next generation of Americans. Click here or the button below to send your urgent fax demanding our senators immediately stop this bill! — Mat 

The BBB bill grants 10 billion dollars to push “environmental justice” in our colleges and universities as a credit program to indoctrinate students and promote the policies of the Green New Deal.

I believe we are to be good stewards of the environment. But I do not elevate the environment to God, and it is insane to think that rocks, trees and water have constitutional rights just like human beings.

Environmental Justice is a radical movement that is infiltrating college campuses, and this movement will get a big boost if the BBB bill passes.

For nearly 50 years, there has been a push to grant human rights to non-human things, like rivers, trees, soils, rocks and mountains. In evolutionist Christopher Stone’s “Should Trees Have Standing?” article, he argues that the laws should see “‘environmental objects’ as holders of legal rights.”

“Colombia’s Supreme Court declared that the Amazon is a legal person with rights—to be protected, conserved and restored … four rivers, two glaciers and a sacred mountain have been granted legal personhood” around the world.

The BBB bill includes a systematic program to push the Green New Deal and other socialist ideas through our colleges and universities. Schools already full of anti-American and socialist sentiments would get additional grants through the BBB to push the envelope even further.

This bill can be stopped IF we tell key members of the Senate to vote “NO!” on BBB. We can hold all the Republicans. And we need at least one Democratic senator to say NO! Send your urgent fax today.

But this is not just some mysticism out of tribal regions. This is a legal strategy that is making inroads right here in America.

For example, the city of Toledo passed a referendum to grant Lake Erie a Bill of Rights. Its goal was “to extend legal rights to our natural environment in order to ensure that the natural world … are no longer subordinated.”

In other words, it granted personhood to not just a body of water but also to everything related to it. “Lake Erie, and the Lake Erie watershed, possess the right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve. The Lake Erie Ecosystem shall include all natural water features, communities of organisms, soil as well as terrestrial and aquatic sub ecosystems that are part of Lake Erie and its watershed.”

This passed by almost a 2/3 majority. While in effect, it granted more rights and dignity to a body of water than to our unborn children!

Now if every college and university in America took advantage of this 10 billion-dollar funding in the BBB bill, that would equal 2.5 million dollars for each school to push “environmental justice” credit programs.

Keep in mind that this is the same bill that requires all childcare lead teachers have a college degree. This would be a whole new level of indoctrination being pushed on college students and 3-year-olds—all at the same time!

It is critically important to block the BBB bill. Our senators must hear from you. Send your urgent fax to Congress to fight this today.

The second aspect of “environmental justice” is that ... even pollution is racist. Proponents argue it disproportionately affects racial minorities.

This idea already has a foothold. The EPA already has an Office of Environmental Justice whose goal it is to protect “the environment in communities overburdened by environmental pollution by integrating environmental justice into all EPA programs.” It also disproportionately focuses on removing the problems “confronting underserved and vulnerable communities.”

This idea of racism and pollution is embedded in our federal government—the Deep State. When speaking with NASA, Kamala Harris asked, “Can you measure trees? Part of that data that you are referring to—EJ, environmental justice—that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?”

While this exchange birthed the satire that #BlackTreesMatter, it is a deadly serious concern to have the federal government dividing up communities based on skin color and disproportionally serving people based on race and the number of and kinds of trees in the community.

This has no business in America!

Also remember, the same bill creates the new U.S. Civilian Climate Corps—activists paid by your tax dollars to push socialist ideals. They “would receive government provided salaries, housing, medical care, and food in exchange for their advocacy,” the media reported.

We need your help to block this serious threat to our nation. Democrats will try to pass the BBB this month during the budget process, which only requires 51 votes.

I believe we can hold all the Republicans, and we need to peel off one or two Democrats to stop the BBB. The senators need to hear from you now! Send your faxes today.

It is critical to act NOW! The BBB will usher in socialism. But we can stop it IF we work together.

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Mat Staver, Chairman

Liberty Counsel Action

Sources:

“CHAPTER XVII LAKE ERIE BILL of RIGHTS.” n.d. Toledo Municipal Code: Section 253-260. American Legal Publishing Corporation. Accessed December 10, 2021. Codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/toledo/latest/toledo_oh/0-0-0-158818.

“Could Build Back Better Be a Catalyst to Tear It All Down?” 2021. Liberty Counsel. November 18, 2021. lc.org/full-article/1116could-build-back-better-be-a-catalyst-to-tear-it-all-down.

Gabriel, Brigitte. 2021. “Kamala Harris Asks NASA If They Can Track Trees ‘by Race’ for Environmental Justice.”  December 10, 2021. Brigittegabriel.com/news/kamala-harris-asks-nasa-if-they-can-track-trees-by-race-for-environmental-justice.

Stone, Christopher D. 1974. “Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects.” Stanford Law Review 26 (6): 1488. Doi.org/10.2307/1228012.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. 2013. “About the Office of Policy (OP).” U.S. EPA January 29, 2013. Epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-policy-op#OEJ.

Yarmuth, John A. 2021. “H.R.5376 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Build Back Better Act.” Congress.gov. September 27, 2021. Congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5376.

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