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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1470 on: August 18, 2018, 06:47:08 pm »

Is Climate Change Killing More People Than George W Bush Ever Could?


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Published on Jul 31, 2018

Short answer yes, it already has, and partly because of his wars he started we still have to do something and the question is what?



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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1471 on: August 18, 2018, 07:17:50 pm »
Global Temperature Projections Could Double As the World Burns (w/guest Dahr Jamail) 


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Should we be focusing on surviving? Is it too late to save world? Dahr Jamail

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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1472 on: August 20, 2018, 01:29:57 pm »

Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth 🌍

AUG 19, 2018

By Chris Hedges —  Climate change is not simply an environmental problem—it is a planetary transition. We will survive only if we rapidly evolve to create new forms of civilization.

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saying-goodbye-to-planet-earth/

It REALLY WAS a good ride, not for you and me, but for TPTB. So expect them to do WHATEVER to prolong their RIDE, against all scientific evidence that EXPLOITATION WITHOUT REFLECTION OF FELLOW EARTHLINGS OF ALL SPECIES (not just humans) AND THE BIOSPHERE FOR PROFIT OVER PLANET is deleterious (i.e. SUICIDAL/abysmally STUPID) to the Homo SAP species.




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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1473 on: August 20, 2018, 06:16:35 pm »
 

Sixth Mass Extinction Ushers In Record-Breaking Wildfires 🔥 and Heat 🌡️  🚩

BY Dahr Jamail Truthout

PUBLISHED August 20, 2018 

https://truthout.org/articles/sixth-mass-extinction-ushers-in-record-breaking-wildfires-and-heat/
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1474 on: August 20, 2018, 11:06:04 pm »
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Aug. 20, 2018 06:31AM EST

Flames of the Simi Valley fire ravage a Southern California mountain side on Oct. 29, 2012. U.S. Air Force / Senior Master Sgt. Dennis W. Goff

'Hothouse Earth' Co-Author Says 'People Will Look Back on 2018 as the Year When Climate Reality Hit'

By Jessica Corbett

SNIPPET:

Amid a flurry of "breathless headlines" about warnings in a new study that outlines a possible "Hothouse Earth" scenario, one co-author optimistically expressed his belief that "people will look back on 2018 as the year when climate reality hit."

In an interview with the Guardian on this past Friday, Stockholm Resilience Center executive director Johan Rockström declared, "This is the moment when people start to realize that global warming is not a problem for future generations, but for us now." Rockström's study has received an "unprecedented" amount of global attention in the past week—270,000 downloads and counting.

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https://www.ecowatch.com/2018-climate-reality-hit-2597436430.html
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1475 on: August 21, 2018, 02:58:41 pm »


5 Graphs Show Just How Unusual This Year’s Wildfires Are

by Susan Minnemeyer Susan Minnemeyer - August 20, 2018

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California’s 2018 fire season started earlier and ramped up faster than previous years. Photo by Daria Devyatkina/Flickr

This time of year always brings wildfires. But what’s unusual this fires season is where and how the blazes are burning—and it could be a warning sign of what’s to come.

Hotter-than-normal temperatures and drought across much of northern Europe and North America in June and July have resulted in wildfires burning in what are typically wetter, cooler regions. England’s peatland moors, Ireland, Sweden, Scandinavia and even areas north of the Arctic Circle experienced significant fires over the past two months.

According to data displayed on Global Forest Watch Fires, Sweden, Finland and Latvia experienced more fires in 2018 than they have any other year since at least 2012, when the collection of such data began. 🕵️



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http://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/5-graphs-show-just-how-unusual-years-wildfires-are
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« Reply #1476 on: August 23, 2018, 08:11:05 pm »
Record Low Water Levels on the Danube Hinders Shipping in Hungary

BUDAPEST, August 22, 2018 by Reuters

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FILE PHOTO: Alluvial wood lies on a gravel shoal in the middle of the Danube river during the period of low water level near Esztergom, Hungary, August 19, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
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Water levels on the Danube dropped to record lows on three sections of the river in Hungary on Wednesday due to a recent drought, hindering passenger cruise ships and causing losses to freight shipping companies.

In Budapest the Danube receded to 0.61 metres, just above the record low of 0.51 meters recorded in 2003, the National Water Authority said in a statement.

Tourists and locals flocked to the bottom of the pillars of the historic Margaret bridge to capture a unique view of the Hungarian capital city from the riverbed, with Parliament and the Royal Castle facing each other on the two riverbanks.

But waterways shippers were desperately waiting for rainfall, forecast for the coming days in Austria and Germany, which they hope could help raise water levels in Hungary as well.

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http://gcaptain.com/record-low-water-levels-on-the-danube-hinders-shipping-in-hungary/

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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1477 on: August 29, 2018, 11:20:56 am »
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Republican congressman 😈 uses climate change as excuse for possible campaign violation

Rep. Culberson’s staff says he purchased collectible fossils with campaign funds "as research material on paleo-climatology."  

By JOE ROMM

AUG 28, 2018, 1:08 PM

Call it “the climate change defense” or, maybe, “the climate science denier defense.”

Texas Rep. John Culberson (R) has come up with a novel argument against complaints that he has used more than $50,000 in campaign funds to buy collectibles such as Civil War memorabilia and even fossils.

The Houston Chronicle reported Monday that “Culberson’s aides explained the purchase as research material on paleo-climatology, a subject that would help him understand climate science,” which he supposedly needs to do since he’s on a committee that oversees funding for NOAA — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “They said the materials helped give him a better understanding of the changing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”

This defense from Culberson, a long-time denier of climate science, is particularly laughable when you go to his campaign’s Federal Election Committee filing, which reveals the purchases come from the Black Hills Institute of South Dakota.

The Institute’s motto, “Always the finest in fossils, fossil replicas, and service,” along with its Tyrannosaurus rex 🦖 logo, suggest this may not be the best place for researching climate science. ;D

The Institute is “most famous for excavating and selling replicas of some of the most complete” T. rex specimans, as Wikipedia explains.

The Institute’s website features “STAN, the largest and most complete (65% real bone) T. rex available to science,” and explains, “Cast replicas of STAN’s magnificent skeleton, skull, teeth and claws are available for sale or rent from the Institute.”

In their complaint about how Culberson has been spending his campaign funds, Texas Democrats write, “It is very unlikely that a congressional campaign committee needs to buy or rent fossils to win a federal election. Thus, these expenditures also appear to be personal use of campaign funds.

It seems even more unlikely that fossils — or potentially fossil replicas — would give the Congressman much insight into climate science.

That’s especially true because Culberson is a long-time climate science denier who  rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus that human emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels, are the dominant cause of recent warming.

In 2015, he told the L.A. Times, “I’m confident humans have had some effect on the climate. We just don’t have enough data or accurate data to say with certainty what that effect has been.”

Climate change made every stage of Hurricane Harvey more horrific

He repeated that mantra to the Texas Tribune in its Tuesday story on how Hurricane Harvey has become a major point of contention in Culberson’s race with Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher: “I’m confident humans are having an impact; my focus is on getting good, accurate, objective data to tell us what’s driving the changes in the climate.”

This is the same tired talking point that Trump administration officials have been using — namely, that humans play some role in climate change, but darned if we know what it is

This talking point has been so thoroughly debunked that when former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt tried it on Fox News last summer, host Chris Wallace pounced. “Mr. Pruitt, all kinds of studies contradict you,” he said.

Even Fox News slams EPA chief’s climate denial: ‘All kinds of studies contradict you’

Given the Congressman’s rejection of the overwhelming conclusions of modern climate science, he probably won’t be using some fossils or fossil replicas for research into paleoclimatology.

It’s up to voters this fall whether they want to retire a Congressman who loves fossils but hates the science of fossil fuel-caused climate change.

https://thinkprogress.org/texas-4f067a76ef32/
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1478 on: August 29, 2018, 11:56:43 am »
The Atlantic

The Global Rightward 🐉🦕🦖😈 👹 🏴‍ ☠️ 🚩 Shift on Climate Change

President Trump 🦀 may be leading the rich, English-speaking world to scale back environmental policies.

By ROBINSON MEYER

AUG 28, 2018

SNIPPET:

At a basic level, this pattern holds up, well, everywhere. Every country except the United States supports the Paris Agreement on climate change. But no major developed country is on track to meet its Paris climate goals, according to the Climate Action Tracker, an independent analysis produced by three European research organizations. Even Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom—where right-wing governments have made combatting climate change a national priority—seem likely to miss their goals.

Simply put: This kind of failure, writ large, would devastate Earth in the century to come. The world would blow its stated goal of limiting atmospheric temperature rise. Heatwaves 🌡️ might regularly last for six punishing weeks, sea levels could soar by feet in a few short decades, and certain fragile ecosystems—like the delicate Arctic permafrost or the kaleidoscopic plenty of coral reefs—would disappear from the planet entirely.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/a-global-rightward-shift-on-climate-change/568684/

Agelbert NOTE: Excellent article. The Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🐉🦕🦖😈👹 never stop corrupting governments all over the world.

One day somebody will ask (while they take one of these Big Oil Cretins to prison for life), "What part of the FACT that CO2 is a pollutant that can wreak havoc on the biosphere in mere Parts Per Million do you NOT understand?".





Earth with and without GHG:

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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #1479 on: September 01, 2018, 01:58:58 pm »


This Video of a Lab Simulated Rogue Wave Will Make Your Palms Sweat

August 30, 2018 by Mike Schuler


It’s a sailor’s worst nightmare. A monster wave that comes out of nowhere, two to three times bigger than the others. In certain cases, waves like this are capable of swallowing a ship whole. Yet to this day we still don’t know much about rogue waves or how they form. Actually, most of what we do know about these freak waves comes from actual experience. We know they’re out there, and many of you could probably share a sea story or two of your own.

But researchers at the Aalto University in Finland say they are now able to recreate the phenomenon in realistic oceanic conditions inside a laboratory, which is helping them learn more about how and why these mysterious and sometimes deadly waves form.

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Professor Amin Chabchoub from the Aalto University explains:

“Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves can now be controlled and generated at will in laboratory environments, in similar conditions as they appear in the ocean. This will help us not only to predict oceanic extreme events, but also in the design of safer ships and offshore rigs. In fact, newly designed vessels and rig model prototypes can be tested to encounter in a small scale, before they are built, realistic extreme ocean waves. Therefore, initial plans may change, if models are not resistant enough to face suddenly occurring freak waves.”

According to the researchers:


The birth of rogue waves can be physically explained through the modulation instability of water waves. In mathematical terms, this phenomenon can be described through exact solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, also referred to as “breathers”.

[These breathers describe the dynamics of unstable water waves that become rogue: the instability arise from a calm state. As a result, now we know how rogue waves may appear in realistic oceanic conditions.]

For a couple of years, the research team around Professor Chabchoub has already been able to create steered rogue waves in laboratory wave flumes. However, this has only succeeded in perfect regular wave conditions. In nature, this is rarely the case.

The results of their findings were published today in the Physical Review Letters 2016. Here are some more photos from the lab:


Photos courtesy Aalto University

https://gcaptain.com/video-lab-simulated-rogue-wave-will-make-palms-sweat/

Agelbert NOTE: Here is a photo series from my article on Predicted Ocean Wave Activity showing what happens to a modern huge crude oil tanker when at least one of these giant waves (that are predicted to be increasingly more common from Catastrophic Climate Change) hits the ship:


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To give you a better idea of the huge threat a giant wave or three is to a large tanker or cargo vessel,  I took some screenshots from a video of a wave laboratory testing the effects of 72 ft. waves on a modern supertanker. I'm sure Big Oil is paying attention, regardless of what they say in public.  ;)


3D simulation by Agelbert of tanker model is below the wave tank screenshot

5: The above is catastrophic for a tanker. 6: Supertanker scale model in scale 72 ft. waves is rolled and sinks.

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The tanker completely capsized. In a real world situation, this is a death blow to the crew because it happens too fast to get survival gear on or reach the lifeboats, even if they are the emergency egress sealed type you saw earlier. That is why both tanker and cargo ships do everything they can to avoid being broadsided. In the real world, when the engines are lost in these types of seas, the only way to survive is to immediately abandon ship on a free fall enclosed life boat capsule.

If the above series of screen shots are not convincing enough to the reader of the threat shipping faces from giant waves, the following video series will leave no doubt in your mind that world shipping is incapable of handling the routine 30 to 35 meter waves that the Hansen et al June 2015 paper predicts for a ΔT = plus 2C (and beyond) world.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Part 3 of 3 parts

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« Reply #1480 on: September 03, 2018, 04:15:08 pm »

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Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.
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The Arctic may be free of ice for the first time in 10,000 years. Wadhams shows how sea ice is the 'canary in the mine' of planetary climate change. He describes how it forms and the vital role it plays in reflecting solar heat back into space and providing an 'air conditioning' system for the planet.

Prof. Peter Wadhams is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist, with 48 years of research on sea ice and ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic. This has focused on expeditions and measurements in the field, which has involved more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions, working from ice camps, icebreakers, aircraft, and, uniquely, Royal Navy submarines (6 submerged voyages to the North Pole ). His research group in Cambridge has been the only UK group with the capacity to carry out fieldwork on sea ice.

He is Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics and is the author of numerous publications on dynamics and thermodynamics of sea ice, sea ice thickness, waves in ice, icebergs, ocean convection and kindred topics. The current main topics of research in the group are sea ice properties, dynamics, and distributions in thickness and concentration. He is also a pioneer in the use of AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) under sea ice, using multibeam sonar to map bottom features, work which he has also been done from UK nuclear submarines.

He began his research career at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University, where he rose to become Director. He moved to DAMTP in 2001. He has also held visiting professorships in Tokyo (National Institute of Polar Research), Monterey (US Naval Postgraduate School), Seattle (University of Washington) and La Jolla (Green Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography).

He was the coordinator of several European Union Arctic flagship projects (ESOP, GreenICE, CONVECTION, and others) and is currently on the Steering Committee of the EU ICE-ARC project as well as a major US Office of Naval Research initiative in the Arctic. He served eight years on the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency and had served on panels of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).

In 1990 he received the Italgas Prize for Environmental Sciences, and he has also been awarded the Polar Medal (UK) (1987) and the W.S. Bruce Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. As well as being Professor at Cambridge he is an Associate Professor at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, run by Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and is a Professor at the Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Ancona. He is a Member of the Finnish Academy and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

His most recent book, “A Farewell to Ice”, documents the ways in which the retreat of sea ice in the Arctic generates feedbacks which impact the entire global climate system, accelerating the rate of warming, the rate of sea level rise, the emission of methane from the offshore, and the occurrence of weather extremes affecting food production. He contends that catastrophic consequences cannot be avoided without making an all-out effort to develop ways of directly capturing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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« Reply #1481 on: September 03, 2018, 04:33:33 pm »
 

French environment minister quits during live interview — says we’re not doing enough

LAST UPDATED ON AUGUST 31ST, 2018 AT 4:08 PM BY MIHAI ANDREI

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When Nicolas Hulot, the French environment minister, went on a radio breakfast show, no one was expecting anything like this. As the interview went on, Hulot spoke more and more about the failures of his cabinet — lamenting that France has not done enough on any environmental front.

“Have we started to reduce our CO2 emissions? No. Have we started to reduce our use of pesticides? No. To prevent the erosion of our biodiversity? No,” Hulot explained.


As the discussion continued, it seemed that Hulot reached a striking moment of self-awareness. Saying that he felt “alone” in a cabinet which took “insufficient” action to tackle environmental challenges, he foreshadowed his resignation.

“I can’t lie to myself anymore,” he said. “I don’t want my presence in the government to give the illusion that we’re facing up to such stakes,” he said on public radio France Inter.

Neither President Emmanuel Macron nor any other ministers were made aware of this decision beforehand. In fact, when Marlène Schiappa, Macron’s secretary of state for equality heard the news while being live on another radio station, she asked the presenter if he was joking.

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« Reply #1482 on: September 09, 2018, 01:15:52 pm »



Top News of the Day... view past news   Last update Sun, 9 Sep 2018 17:07:49 UTC 

NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on Hurricane Florence, TS Helene and TS Isaac
NHC issuing advisories for the Eastern Pacific on TS Paul
CPHC issuing advisories for the Central Pacific on Olivia


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Agelbert NOTE: Hmmm. This reminds me of last year around this time.



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« Reply #1483 on: September 10, 2018, 10:27:05 pm »


Top News of the Day... view past news   Last update Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:21:57 UTC

NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Isaac
NHC issuing advisories for the Eastern Pacific on TS Paul
CPHC issuing advisories for the Central Pacific on Olivia


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Atlantic Wide View
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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/



Agelbert NOTE: Yup. Just like last year around this time.



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« Reply #1484 on: September 10, 2018, 10:47:13 pm »
30,000 March for Climate Justice in San Francisco

September 10, 2018

Ahead of Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, protesters demand leaders prioritize frontline communities over profit

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DHARNA NOOR: Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in San Francisco to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects, and demand investment in policies that immediately reduce fossil fuel emissions and create green jobs.

SPEAKER: To hurt the earth is to hurt who we are as a people.

SPEAKER: The climate crisis is making life more difficult for all people, including working people, and that the transition to community-owned renewable energy needs to be one that creates good union jobs; that allows people to support their families and their communities.

SPEAKER: We have got to stop fossil fuel production. We have got to stop digging. We’ve got to stop fracking. We’ve got to move on to renewable energy, because our planet is dying. And if we don’t do that, we’re all in big trouble.

SPEAKER: My name is [Ninawa Hunikui] and I’m from the state of Acre in the Brazilian Amazon. I’m here to unite with other indigenous peoples of the world to defend mother earth.

SPEAKER: All across the country communities are coming together and figuring out how to hold our elected officials accountable to address climate change.

DHARNA NOOR: Almost all scientists agree that climate change is human caused, and that if we don’t curb fossil fuel emissions now, we’ll usher in effects like deadly extreme weather and mass species die-off. Globally we’re already seeing effects like historic floods, heat waves, and melting ice caps. And Californians are seeing effects like forest fires that killed seven people this summer.

SPEAKER: California is burning. We still have several fires going on. And that’s a, that’s a result, right, of this climate catastrophe that we are seeing.

SPEAKER: We have firefighters who are out putting out the fires and some of them not coming home because of the effects of climate change.

SPEAKER: Here we are on a bay. We’re bordered on three sides by water. And a lot of the Bay Area will be flooded and unlivable in the decades in the future. And that would put a huge strain on San Francisco itself, like, the taxpayers would be paying for all utility damage that will be happening.

DHARNA NOOR: And since climate change is a global problem, people all over the world are rising up in places from France to Uganda.

SPEAKER: There are events in over 240 communities across the nation in almost every state. From town halls, to rallies, to trainings, tens of thousands of people are coming together today everywhere to work for climate, jobs, and justice.

SPEAKER: On September 12-14, California Governor Jerry Brown will convene civic leaders from around the world, who will gather at San Francisco’s Global Climate Action Summit. But some think the summit won’t do enough.

SPEAKER: Market-based solutions don’t work because they don’t center place-based solutions; solutions that come from communities that are highly impacted, and those that have been fighting on the frontline of the extractive economy.

DHARNA NOOR: So they’re rallying to say we need policy that prioritizes frontline communities.

SPEAKER: You keep saying it’s supply and demand. Well, listen to our demands. What we’re demanding. Let us have back our grassroots communities where we want to have community-scale gardening, where we want to have small-scale solar and wind that’s distributed. We don’t want this corporate control anymore.

SPEAKER: We really need to take a more cooperative approach towards our economy, and one that gives back to the earth, just as it’s been giving to us for many thousands of years. Under a green economy we need people to build green infrastructure, we need people to maintain the infrastructure, and we need people trained for this new economy. And so there’s a whole new sector that’s rising. It’s happening. And we really want to see it supported, financed, and accessible for all.

SPEAKER: Not providing permits for people, for oil industry to keep digging.

SPEAKER: There’s enough money in this city. We have more billionaires in this city than anywhere in the world in this city and elsewhere to make it a just transition for all of us.

DHARNA NOOR: Stay tuned for more Real News coverage from the Bay Area this week, where thousands are holding actions to demand decisive policy. With Will Arenas, this is Dharna Noor, San Francisco.

https://therealnews.com/stories/30000-march-for-climate-justice-in-san-francisco


He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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