The Climate Emergency and the Election: A Pathway to WWII-Scale Mobilization

From Common Dreams, October 2016, Posted by Wayne Morgenthaler

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Two years ago before the election of Trump, Ezra Silks from Climate Mobilization wrote this article. It was very critical of the the Americans. He said "We are a broken people, destroyed by our own cynicism, desperate for quick fixes, obsessed with our imagined victim hood and helplessness, and totally at a loss for how to save ourselves."

From Article: This summer, we fought to include our call for a WWII-scale climate mobilization in the Democratic Party’s 2016 platform (see pg. 45). Thanks to our efforts (and in particular those of Russell Greene), the platform declares a “global climate emergency,” and in response, calls for a climate emergency summit within the first 100 days of the next administration as well as a WWII-scale climate mobilization:

From the Platform: "We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II. In the first 100 days of the next administration, the President will convene a summit of the world’s best engineers, climate scientists, policy experts, activists, and indigenous communities to chart a course to solve the climate crisis."

I provide this article here to show that Mobilization is not a new idea and to shed some light with the lense of climate change activism on the lesser of two evils (Hillary Clinton) debate which still rages (see Noam Chomsky) and will raise it's ugly head again in the run up to 2020. We will have to come to terms with this in short order and unify.  That we have lost time and solutions will be even more difficult can hardly be stressed enough.  Let's get to work.

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