Climate Change

The Future Of Climate Authoritarianism Is Now

March 23, 2019 Jacob Sugarman, Truthdig Educate! Climate Change, Militarization, Police abuse

Climate change is already transforming our politics in ways we never imagined and might not yet grasp. Consider far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s recent meeting with Donald Trump at the White House. “Today, we don’t even have to gaze into the future, or trust that it will be deformed by climate change, to see what that would like,” Wallace-Wells writes. “In the form of tribalism at home and nationalism abroad and terrorism flaming out from the tinder of failed states, that future is here, at least in a preview, already. Now we just wait for the storms.”

Climate Change: Two Feminists White Neolberal vs. Brave Freedom Fighter

March 23, 2019 By Andrew Stewart, Washington Babylon Resist! Climate Change, Feminism

Two women on climate change. One of them embodies white neoliberal feminism, the other is an extremely brave freedom fighter. How they respond to expanding fossil fuel infrastructure is a microcosm of what we can expect to see more and more in response to the climate crisis. Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, squashed a letter by her own state health agency, which raised serious concerns about a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in a densely populated Providence neighborhood. The other is the extraordinarily brave working-class Puerto Rican Monica Huertas, campaign coordinator for the primarily BIPOC-led environmental coalition No LNG in PVD.

Landmark Climate Victory: Federal Court Rejects Sale Of Public Lands For Fracking

March 22, 2019 Staff, Westernlaw.org Resist! Climate Change, Courts, Fracking, Land

In a landmark victory for climate, health, and public lands, a federal judge late yesterday rejected the sale of public lands for fracking and ordered a halt to drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming. “This ruling is a triumph for our climate,” said Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ Climate and Energy Program director. “To limit greenhouse gas emissions, we have to start keeping our fossil fuels in the ground and putting an end to selling public lands for fracking. This decision is a critical step toward making that happen.”

Extinction Rebellion Paint George Square Blue

March 22, 2019 By Jody Harrison, Heraldscotland.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Protests

ENVIRONMENTAL activists have stepped up their campaign to draw attention to the dangers of climate change by marching blue paint footsteps across Glasgow's famous George Square. Campaigners Extinction Rebellion Glasgow carried out the paint-daubing protest after weeks of peaceful lunchtime sit-ins outside the adjacent Glasgow Council City Chambers. The protest is part of a strategy of civil disobedience that aims to pressure the local authority into declaring a climate emergency.

Why Students Of Color Are Stepping Up To Lead Climate Strikes

March 18, 2019 Leanna First-Arai, Yesmagazine.org Resist! Climate Change, Strikes, Youth Activism

The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal. Kawika Ke Koa Pegram has lived his entire life in island communities and is all too familiar with what sea level rise looks like firsthand. Pegram, a 17-year-old junior in high school, recently moved back to Hawai‘i—where he was born—from the Philippines. Two years later, Hurricane Walaka hit the state. “It was one of the worst storms the island has seen in modern history,” he remembers. “It had floods that went up to your knees and legs.”

Global Climate Strike In Pictures: Millions Of Students Walk Out To Demand Planetary Transformation

March 16, 2019 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Protests, Youth Activism

"We are facing the greatest existential crisis humanity has ever faced. And yet it has been ignored. You who have ignored it know who you are.” All over the planet on Friday, millions of children and young adults walked out of their classrooms in an unprecedented collective action to demand a radical and urgent shift in society's energy and economic systems in order to avert the worst impacts of human-caused global warming and climate change.

Parenting the Climate-Change Generation

March 15, 2019 By Frida Berrigan, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Youth

Young people across the world are striking to draw attention to the ravages of climate change. They are demanding -- with their bodies and their voices -- that the catastrophe each of them will inherit be a priority for the grown-ups around them. They are insisting that we adults make some sacrifices to keep their planet from becoming uninhabitable. “We are the voiceless future of humanity... We will not accept a life in fear and devastation. We have the right to live our dreams and hopes.” You know who said that? A teenager. Actually, lots of them, since it’s part of a letter, a call to action, from the organizers of Fridays for a Future. I’m hearing them loud and clear and it’s driving me crazy!

As Hundreds Of Thousands Of Students Prepare For Global #ClimateStrike On March 15, Here’s How To Get Involved

March 13, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Students

"We are striking because our world leaders have yet to acknowledge, prioritize, or properly address our climate crisis." In 92 countries and counting, hundreds of thousands of students are planning to skip school on March 15 as part of the "School Strike 4 Climate"—a growing movement of young people demanding that policymakers worldwide take urgent and radical steps to battle the climate crisis. "I think we are only seeing the beginning. I think that change is on the horizon and the people will stand up for their future."

SHOCK, HORROR: Poll Finds Strong Majority Support For Declaring A Climate Emergency

March 13, 2019 By David Spratt, Resilience.org Organize! Climate Change

In five countries — Australia, the USA, Canada, the UK and Switzerland — an impressive 382 local government authorities covering more than 33 million people have recognised or declared a climate emergency. And now polling conducted in Melbourne shows that a sizeable majority in that city support declaring a climate emergency. That will be a shock for some of Australia’s largest climate advocacy organisations, who have steadfastly refused to use the climate emergency framing, saying that such language is not plausible, is not supported by market research or that appeals to fear do not work.

Rethink Activism In The Face Of Catastrophic Biological Collapse

March 7, 2019 Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil, Truthout.org Strategize! Activism, Climate Change, Environment

This is a hard piece to write, partly because we, too, are baffled. Environmental collapse, coupled with living in the sixth mass extinction, are new territory. We are still in the process of confronting the reality of living with the prospect of an unlivable planet. These thoughts emerge out of our sober forays into an uncertain future, searching for the right ways to live and serve in the present. The second reason for our reluctance to share this contemplation is anticipation of the grief, anger and fear it may trigger. We visit these chambers of the heart frequently, and know the challenges of deep feeling, particularly in a culture that denies feelings and pathologizes death...

The Keys To The Sunrise Movement’s Momentum? A Bold Idea, A Visionary Narrative, And Organising Best Practices

March 7, 2019 By Climate Advocacy Lab, Mobilisationlab.org Resist! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Reform

Over the last year and a half, the Sunrise Movement and its allies have promoted an energy infrastructure plan known as the Green New Deal so effectively in the US that the policy now features on most pundits’ “2019 climate items to watch” lists. The team at Climate Advocacy Lab wanted to highlight some of the key public engagement and movement-building aspects of this policy and campaign. We are a project that supports climate and clean energy advocates to develop evidence-based best practices for mobilising Americans...

Climate Politics After The Yellow Vests

March 5, 2019 Colin Kinniburgh, Dissentmagazine.org Strategize! Climate Change, Yellow Vest

I first passed the protest camp on Christmas Eve, as the sun was setting and most of the country was preparing to sit down for the holiday dinner. So were twenty-odd local gilets jaunes. This dedicated group of protesters had spent over a month camped out at Jeanne Rose, a large roundabout on the outskirts of the former industrial town of Le Creusot, about four hours’ drive southeast of Paris. Their ranks had thinned since November 17, when 150 or so protesters first rallied to the Jeanne Rose roundabout, out of some quarter-million across the country. But those who stuck around had reason to be optimistic.

Energy Democracy: Taking Back Power

March 4, 2019 By Johanna Bozuwa, Thenextsystem.org Create! Climate Change, Energy, New Economy

Electric utility (re)municipalization is gaining popularity as a strategy to shift away from a reliance on fossil fuel extraction in the context of combating climate change. Across the world—from Berlin to Boulder—communities have initiated campaigns to take back their power from investor-owned (private) utilities and create publicly owned and operated utilities. Moreover, such efforts are increasingly taking on the perspective and language of energy democracy. Energy democracy seeks not only to solve climate change, but to also address entrenched systemic inequalities.

Investors Join Calls For A Food Revolution To Fight Climate Change

March 4, 2019 Georgina Gustin, InsideClimateNews.org Create! Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, New Economy, Revisionism

An influential group of investors has added its voice to a growing chorus of health professionals and scientists who are calling for radical changes to agriculture and food consumption in an effort to fight climate change, malnutrition and obesity. A handful of new reports emphasize that climate change and the world's worsening health are urgent, intertwined crises. One of them calls for an international treaty to address the problem. A scientific study published last month also shows how "food production shocks" linked to climate change have been rising globally, putting food security at risk.

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