We need ideas leadership. The rate of climate action needs to be more urgent than the politicians want to speak about, says David Spratt, author of ‘Climate Reality Check’, in this short audio interview: » Right-click to download the audio file (MP3, 128 kbps) Transcript “We need a check to see where things are at. Read more about David Spratt: Amazing things are what we need to do on climate now[…]
Margaret Klein Salamon is founder and director of The Climate Mobilization in the United States. In April 2016, she published a 35-page strategy paper, which was her proposal for a new strategy for the climate movement. In the three years since publication, new climate action groups such as Extinction Rebellion, the school strikers lead by Read more about Margaret Klein Salamon: How to go into emergency mode[…]
» Right-click to download the audio file (MP3) On 14 April 2016, US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke out about the need for a Word War Two-scale climate mobilisation to resounding cheers during the New York debate with Hillary Clinton, broadcasted live to the American people on CNN. In the debate, Sanders compared global warming Read more about Bernie Sanders: We must move on climate as we would if we were at war[…]
University of New South Wales PhD candidate Laurence L. Delina has investigated the rapid, large, socio-economic changes made by several countries just before and during World War 2, wrote professor Mark Diesendorf from UNSW Australia in The Conversation: “Laurence Delina found that we can learn from wartime experience in changing the labour force and finance. Read more about Laurence Delina: Learning from war[…]
Press release 20 April 2016: Legal Petition Pushes President Obama to End Crude Oil Exports, Declare Climate Emergency 350 Organizations Back Effort to Protect Climate, Communities From Fracking Pollution Linked to Exporting U.S. Oil WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration prepares to sign the Paris climate agreement, 350 environmental, social-justice, health and faith organizations filed Read more about Legal petition pushes President Obama to declare climate emergency[…]
“The point is that climate change is no longer some far-off problem. It is happening here. It is happening now. Climate change is already disrupting our agriculture and ecosystems, our water and food supplies, our energy, our infrastructure, human health, human safety – now. Today. And climate change is a trend that affects all trends Read more about Barack Obama: We’re not acting fast enough[…]
In Canada, a ‘Leap Manifesto’ of more than 32,000 signatories was launched in January 2016 in support of a rapid, “justice-based” energy transition to a renewable economy. The manifesto advocates a “great transition” in energy conversion — a leap — to “prevent catastrophic global warming,” and denounces Canada’s record on climate change as “a crime Read more about Canada | The Leap Manifesto: Call for a leap to prevent catastrophic global warming[…]
“I stand at the head of a government representing all parties in the state. All creeds, all classes, every recognisable section of opinion … we are supported by a free parliament and a free press, but there is one bond which unites us all, and sustains us in the public regard, namely – as is Read more about Winston Churchill: There is one bond which unites us all[…]