Tag: climate crisis

"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”

"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."

"Unless there is a fair deal that accounts for the legacy of climate change caused by industrialized developed countries, we will never have a sustainable global strategy."

"Climate change is an existential threat to the world's poorest and most vulnerable. These new targets demonstrate how seriously we are taking this issue, investing and mobilizing $200 billion over five years to combat climate change."

This dereliction of consistent misleadership has put the planet on a dangerous path of climate crisis.

"If we do not get our act together, I worry about the planet that we will be leaving... The grassroots of this country has got to stand up."

Because this possibility is simply too important, and time is just too short, to allow it to be shut down by the usual forces of political inertia.

The findings are a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration’s insistence that environmental regulations hurt jobs and hinder economic growth.

Trump and his cronies are deeply invested in or beholden to ExxonMobil and other Big Carbon firms who stand to lose billions if the public realizes the harm they are inflicting on us.

"We need millions of people all over this country to stand up and demand fundamental changes in our energy policy in order to protect our kids and our grandchildren and the planet."