Poor communities are often forced to support extraction projects in order to gain some jobs and
"development" funds. "Part of the job of the climate movement, then, is to make the moral case that
the communities who have suffered most from unjust resource relationships should be first to be
supported in their efforts to build the next, life-based economy now.
"And that means a fundamentally new relationship, in which those communities have full control over
resource projects, so that they become opportunities for skills training, jobs, and steady revenues
(rather than one-off payments).