Trans-Pacific Partnership bad for Environment
By Jim Turner, MO Chapter Chair
Last March in Kansas City, (pictured to the right) a coalition of concerned citizens met to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) By next June, Congress will vote on the TPP. Its alleged environmental protections are of doubtful enforceability. Worse, it would include Investor-State Dispute Settlement provisions; international corporate-dominated tribunals could sanction us and any nation which did not scale back environmental and labor protections. This could compel the USA to approve larger coal exports to other nations – despite carbon-driven climate disruption.
Defeating TPP will be a big step in restraining corporate excesses that threaten Earth’s habitability. Please watch http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/trans-pacific-partnership and Club emails for cues: phone Congress, write to newspaper editors, and Like our Facebook postings.