The atmosphere wasn’t carbon loaded overnight. It took time to take us to this point, it will take time to make corrections. Unfortunately, geopolitics add to the stagnation. The 125 world leaders meeting at the United Nations in New York City this week were not ready to sign agreements, but at the opening remarks everyone of them referenced the activities in the streets world-wide. President Obama said, “We can not pretend not to hear them.”
The next levels of important United Nations negotiations are scheduled for Lima, Peru in December this year and in Paris, France in December 2015. We do not have to sit back and do nothing until then. Fossil fuel - oil, gas and coal - need to be phased out. Science agrees that burning the existing reserves are enough to take us past the turning point of catastrophic climate change. It’s become an Unburnable fuel. The industry is sitting on a carbon bubble, like the housing bubble, it will burst. Those invested will be high and dry.
Organize. Throw the politicians out of office that are heavily financed by the fossil fuel and nuclear energy industries. Divest from fossil fuel and reinvest in renewable energy. Work in your local community to ban hydraulic fracturing. Spread the paradigm shift to a better world for future generations. Here’s how:
Here’s a very short video wrap-up of the climate march that ends with some hopeful words from President Obama and links to better coverage of the Flood Wall Street action:
http://peoplesclimate.org/wrap-up/
And some additions: Reports have been coming in that there were closer to 400,000 marchers in the Peoples Climate March.
Secondly, there were easily 1,000 people at Flood Wall Street and 104 arrests. From my personal interactions at Flood Wall Street, the New York Police Department acted calmly and professionally. However, it was difficult to see it all from a single point perspective. The NYPD stabbed and burst the very large carbon bubble prop that was playfully passed around the crowd. They brought down and arrested a man that had climbed up a pole. Sometime after the closing bell they demanded people disperse - they used tear gas and pepper spray on those that remained.
Submitted from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York