6 # Greenwashing

This issue of It's Freezing in LA! focuses on different forms of greenwashing.

Our politicians continue to fiddle in the margins, promising pitiful support for the clean energy systems, technologies and resilience measures we desperately need, while simultaneously funding polluting industries, stifling activist platforms and rolling back vital environmental protections.

Elsewhere, greenwashing is used for personal and economic gain, to justify oppression and to hide colonial atrocities.

Despite our best intentions, environmental initiatives greenwash too: we latch onto subjects with admirable but alarmingly inflexible tenacity, we ask for changes that are too small, we fail to appreciate intersecting ills.

In this issue, we take a look at different forms of greenwashing, and some more genuine ways forward.

Its Freezing in LA! magazine is an independent magazine about climate change, printing the best slow journalism and illustration on green issues.