Doing direct action non-violent action trainings, marches, rallies, speaker series, guerilla gardening actions and a bunch of other stuff. Looking back at the DC chapter Facebook page they’ve averaged maybe an event a week, a little more in warmer months and a little less in winter. Where were you?
This is a strategy for species death. Accepting a 2030 strategy from the government that falls this far short of what the IPCC says is needed to avoid permanent tipping points is science denial. Work on the private sector has been running along at full speed alongside government pressure for years. For examples look to the divestment movement.
It is high visibility and ties the action into the Burning Pink set of direct actions internationally.
If you have a better slogan the streets are there for you to get out and rally people to your superior banner.
This has been a pressing issue to the entire species since before Biden’s first presidential campaign. Then he was Vice-President, while it was still important, and as President he has proposed a plan that doesn’t meet basic scientific consensus on the needs of the moment. How long do you propose to give him, with the full knowledge that every day of delay means that the changes have to be larger?
Apparently yes. It was more than 30 years ago that we reached the point of Congressional testimony from expert witnesses. Then a decade of letter writing and nonconfrontational street actions, both silly and somber. Then we had a decade of films, books, and hand wringing think pieces. Then another decade of financial pressure, begging, and being attacked by dogs. None of that seems to have moved the needle. The first COP was in 95 and the Rio Declaration was in 92. If summits were going to work, we wouldn’t be looking at the planning for COP 26 this year in Glasgow.
The concessions in the 2001 /Doha round of talks that allowed developing countries to exhibit flexibility until 2016 on the TRIPS agreement in health crises, explicitly including HIV. Absent the sustained international pressure, which included the street actions in Seattle the TRIPS provisions were on track to go into effect in 99. Tens of thousands of people are probably alive as a result. I’ll trade a few windows for that.
I assure you that mass death is not the plan. It is, however, the inevitable result. Think 99% die-back of the human species no later than the turn of the century. I know, I’m being very optimistic.
Yesterday’s solutions will not solve tomorrow’s problems. I already pointed out that AOC’s Green New Deal was the bare minimum required before it was watered down.
Climate change does not care about political support, it is happening regardless. Without drastic action, far more than what Biden has proposed, we are going to have entire countries removed from the map (Kiribati will likely be the first) and massive population displacement (Look at maps of the elevation and population density of Bangladesh, and tell me if you notice anything).
Being selfish bastards but a bit better than the Republicans just isn’t going to cut it anymore, and every Democrat who adopts that as a position needs to be called out on it constantly.
Oh no! The protestors broke some windows and left manure lying about!
Have you compared that to the damage being done in the name of capitalism. It barely registers. XR haven’t flooded people out of their homes, they haven’t caused desertification, they haven’t killed anyone with pollution.
Maybe try clutching your pearls at the right targets?
Because that has worked so well over the last 50 years. Climate change is barely a problem now! /s
This is so true. Letter writing and quiet, polite sit-ins actually have a really terrible record of achieving real change. Things change following escalations that get attention. The right has driven a narrative that anything more than sitting quietly and not inconveniencing anyone is “rioting”.
Cept they didn’t say that. Oh how much better if they had. They said “Biden’s plan = mass death” and while you may see the pink and go, ‘oh, okay, here’s ER flanking the dems from the left; cool.’ most people are not clued in. So the words matter. “Declare a climate emergency now” is pretty clear, fwiw.
As an activist myself, I know how much work goes into planning every facet of a direct action or social media campaign.
And ER seems like they spent all the late night meetings working out the optics and then didn’t really go back over their slogans, so it does sound like a far right protest. Until I rtfa, I assumed it was precisely that.
I also have the suspicion that the climate policy is intended to be the absolutely most progressive piece of legislation that Biden feels he can jam through with the limited scope of his mandate.
Also, don’t let anyone key into how much of the infrastructure plan’s ‘underinvested communities’ basically stacks up to (needed) infrastructure-based reparations. You might upset someone.
I can see a wide audience of low-information populace (and even outright climate deniers) thinking this was a protest for their cause. It just doesn’t seem useful. This is not the way.
eg, the literal “dumping” on Biden; ironically dumping manure, which “those radical socialist Green Deal nuts” claim causes global warming (crazy! amirit?); farmers didn’t do this versus Trump, so Biden must really be screwing up!
I feel it’s more likely it’s the most progressive legislation the notably not progressive Biden is willing to attempt. The party has been fighting harder to crush legislation with popular support with progressives (and the population has a whole) than to get a handful of Senators in line.
Funny how some people didn’t seem to care about human manure being spread inside the Capitol just a few months ago… but have the vapors over some cow poop on a damn lawn…
How about don’t make assumptions about what I see and think here? That’s getting to be real tedious lately.
Yep. This is how reparations are going to happen. It will be a slow crawl with institutional programs that go generally unnoticed and then become codified. Then it will be some form of UBI that is weighted to historically underserved communities. Basically, as long as no one actually uses the word “reparations” the QOP has too short an attention span to notice until it’s already implemented. I do think Swanson Turkey Carlson called it reparations, but it kind of went unnoticed in his need to feed the daily outrage machine.
