Updates from the forefront of the Climate Emergency Movement.
The CNN Town hall was groundbreaking in the sense that the network committed seven hours to focus on the existential threat of our generation – climate emergency. This is the type of coverage needed to address this existential crisis that candidate after candidate acknowledged last night. It cannot be a one and done thing.
Our thoughts are with the people of the Bahamas and we urge the public and our nation to support recovery efforts there. The devastation of Hurricane Dorian is a clear warning that the climate emergency is not coming; it’s already here and already killing people.
In the face of the deepening climate emergency, strong policy that leads the target for legislative potential and helps move the goalposts is vital. Reposting a recent Resilience article from TCM allies Larry Edwards and Stan Cox on “Cap and Adapt” — a national policy proposal towards the managed decline of fossil fuels called for in the Congressional Climate Emergency Declaration.
Many of the Democratic candidates grasp the threat to humanity and the living world and are moving accordingly, however; there remains far too many members of the DNC acting in the role of ‘climate deniers’ refusing to treat this like the emergency it is.
We are thrilled to see that Senator Sanders has committed to declare a climate emergency and initiate a just and equitable $16.3 trillion, WWII-scale climate mobilization to rapidly transform the economy.
Today, amid a week of massive flooding in the nation’s capital, The Climate Mobilization (TCM) joined the offices of Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in announcing the introduction of a nonbinding resolution seeking to declare the climate crisis an official national emergency in the United States.
One of our greatest initial victories from this effort is that “climate emergency” and “climate mobilization” have entered the public discussion.
Today, amid a week of massive flooding in the nation’s capital, The Climate Mobilization (TCM) joined the offices of Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in announcing the introduction of a nonbinding resolution seeking to declare the climate crisis an official national emergency in the United States.
This action by the City of L.A. is concrete progress towards the kind of WWII-scale mobilization that is necessary to drive down emissions, capture excess carbon, and protect L.A. residents as the climate emergency accelerates.
New York City becomes the largest local government to date to declare a Climate Emergency and joins over 650 other governments that are standing for mobilization.
